“One day spent with someone you love can change everything.”

Death: the only true emotion felt in an apathetic world.

There’s a story behind everything but behind all your stories is always your mother’s story because hers is where yours begins.

This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It’s knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.

Accept who you are; and revel in it.

All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.

I think what you notice most when you haven’t been home in a while is how much the trees have grown around your memories.

We cannot stop what Heaven chooses.

There are no random acts, We are all connected. You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind.

Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.

She had been so consumed with escaping her own misery, she hadn’t considered the misery she might inflict.

The words people do not speak are louder than the ones they do.

But she wasn’t around, and that’s the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going in to every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone.

We need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn’t do. All the things we should have done. You can’t get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened.

Remember, the only difference between ‘marital’ and ‘martial’ is where you put the ‘i’.

Don’t cling to things because everything is impermanent.

Sharing tales of those we’ve lost is how we keep from really losing them.

But if you know that you are a man too, and that even such are those that rule, learn this first of all: that all human affairs are a wheel which, as it turns, does not allow the same men always to be fortunate.

The eye altering, alters all.

November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.

Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Does money upset the hearts of learned men? He answered, “men whose hearts are changed by money are not learned.”

Everyday is a new opportunity to change your life and be who you want to be.

My lyrics are a complete 180 from what they used to be in terms of maturity. And I have a kid, so that changes everything.