"Making art can be maddening at times and frustrating and not always rewarding, frequently not rewarding. But you do it because you believe in it and you do it as a passion that drives you, and it sustains you during those lean times."

“I am pleased to launch the Friends of Thailand Caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives.”

“Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.”

“I have a long history of being told I have no rhythm, and of people saying 'I've heard chickens sing better than that'.”

“I think it is possible on earth to build a young, new Jerusalem, a little, new heaven of this surpassing love. God, either send me more of this love, or take me quickly over the water, where I may be filled with his love.”

“The warm and radiant yes of the heart is perfect, like the sun, in bringing all things to life and nourishing all that is truly human.”

Source : John Welwood (2005). “Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships: Healing the Wound of the Heart”, p.1, Shambhala Publications

“Give, but give until it hurts.”

“Time, and the grand gesture of forgiveness, helps to heal old wounds.”

Source : Source: www.alternativenation.net

“As the eldest son of an Alabama sharecropper family, I was constantly troubled by a collage of North American southern behaviors and notions in reference to the inhumanity of people. There were questions that I did not know how to ask but could, in my young, unsophisticated way, articulate a series of answers.”