I had panic attacks during rehearsal. There were times when I really thought I wasn't going to be able to do it.
Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers.
Praise is sunshine; it warms, it inspires, it promotes growth; blame and rebuke are rain and hail; they beat down and bedraggle, even though they may at times be necessary.
Strange, what brings these past things so vividly back to us, sometimes!
My vocation to preach on paper.
It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.
Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
This is a very central part of the psychedelic attitude toward the world, to entertain all possibilities but to never commit to belief. Belief always being seen as a kind of trap, because if you belief something you are forever precluded from believing its opposite.
I've always told my children that life is like a layer cake. You get to put one layer on top of the other, and whether you frost it or not is up to you.
I wish you would grow to the understanding that you choose heterosexuality.
The next time someone tells you, "The Church is full of a bunch of hypocrites. " You can respond, "You don't even know the half of it. "