The Lord will give you, if you ask, the feelings of the compassion He feels for those in need.
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.
The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.
Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.
Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
Working on 'Raising Hope' is a very hurry-up-and-wait activity, and I just always liked the idea of being as productive as I can be. I write because I don't just want that time to dissolve, where I'm sitting in a trailer staring blankly at the paintings of moccasins that came with the trailer.
I'm not a guy to go in the studio and spend months, let alone years, like some people do. I cannot even be in the studio for a month, it will drive me nuts.
Nixon's the kind of guy that if you were drowning fifty feet off shore, he'd throw you a thirty foot rope. Then Kissinger would go on TV the next night and say that the President had met you more than half-way.
The nude is the perfect expression of freedom. Freedom to be.