I'm in great shape considering I have hardware in my back. I work out constantly to keep my muscles limber and my abs strong so they can take the burnt of everything.
A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common - this is my symphony.
Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.
No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.
Health is the working man's fortune, and he ought to watch over it more than the capitalist over his largest investments. Health lightens the efforts of body and mind. It enables a man to crowd much work into a narrow compass. Without it, little can be earned, and that little by slow, exhausting toil.
Jesus, Thou art all compassion, pure unbounded love Thou art; Visit us with Thy salvation, enter every trembling heart.
It was a storm in a tea cup, but in politics we sail in paper boats.
I write almost every single part of my songs, even the actual drum parts sometimes, whether they be simple or layered with many different instruments.
To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.