God is just waiting for you to turn your face back toward Him. You've not gone too far!
The best use of imagination is creativity. The worst use of imagination is anxiety.
The world 'out there' won't change until the world 'in here' does.
When you blame and criticize others, you are avoiding some truth about yourself.
The three things you can offer your children to change them: attention, appreciation and affection.
Relinquish your attachment to the known, step into the unknown, and you will step into the field of all possibilities
The abuse of food, alcohol, or drugs is essentially a material response to a need that isn't really physical at its foundation. . What we are looking for is pure joy rather than mere sensation, or even oblivion of sensation. Addiction is unrecognized spiritual craving.
When I write fiction, I never try to deliver a message; I just want to tell a story. But I admit that I want the story to be memorable and the characters to touch the reader's heart.
I was a completely normal kid, the school nerd. In Year 8 and 9 I got picked on. I was a freak- no one understood me. I was the kid who wanted to be abducted by ET. Then all the losers left in Year 10. But I was quite good at school, and very artistic. In Year 11 it turned around. I became one of the coolest kids in school. I was in school musicals- the kid who could sing. It was bizzare. I loved school. It's an amazing little world. The rules inside the school are different from the outside world.
Nissan is designing a car that will read the driver's mind. I already know what I'm going to do. I want a car that will read the other guy's mind.
Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.