"I'm usually a no-filter kind of cat. My frown comes really naturally and doesn't need anything else to keep it real."

“The church is not a place where perfect people gather to say perfect things, or have perfect thoughts, or have perfect feelings. The Church is a place where imperfect people gather to provide encouragement, support, and service to each other as we press on in our journey to return to our Heavenly Father.”

“Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.”

“Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip the bottom out of their boat.”

“Do not consider yourself deprived because your dreams were not fulfilled; the truly deprived have never dreamed.”

Source : Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1994). “Aphorisms”, Ariadne Press (CA)

“If the world allows the people of Darfur to be removed forever from their land and their way of life, then genocide will happen elsewhere because it will be seen as something that works. It must not be allowed to work. The people of Darfur need to go home now. I write this for them, and for that day, ... and for those still living who might yet have beautiful lives on the earth.”

Source : Daoud Hari (2008). “The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur”, p.10, Random House

“Life must have its sacred moments and its holy places. We need the infinite, the limitless, the uttermost -- all that can give the heart a deep and strengthening peace.”

“I just want to keep doing things completely different from the other. I just want to keep working with great people, great filmmakers and great actors and just building on that experience.”

“We just wanted to make albums where every song stands out and is different. It must not be the same track from one to 12.”