"friendship: I'm single, footloose and fancy free, I have no responsibilities, no anchors. Work, friendship and self-improvement, that's me."

"truth: Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people."

"relationship: Mutual caring relationships require kindness and patience, tolerance, optimism, joy in the other's achievements, confidence in oneself, and the ability to give without undue thought of gain."

"inspiration: Only the gentle are ever really strong."

"inspiration: No one rises above who he or she has been without first having fallen down. The best time - in fact, the only time - to make a real change in your life is in the moment of seeing the need for it. He who hesitates always gets lost in the hundred reasons why tomorrow is a better day to get started."

"romance: Why are you pretending to write, when I already know you're just doing that to intimidate me?"

"poetry: This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls."

"love: I was dead, then alive.Weeping, then laughing.The power of love came into me,and I became fierce like a lion,then tender like the evening star."

"life: The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls."

"success: character is not made in a crisis- it is only exhibited"

"soul: Music is an outburst of the soul."

"love: Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion."