The ways of love are strange and hard: The love you want is always barred; The love you have you want to change. The ways of love are hard and strange.

I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it

Even the most introverted person alive is constantly hungry for human association

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.

But whether there's some grand design really matters little to me. My only hope was this: to see what might be, to believe that it should be, and then to do all I could to bring it to pass, whatever the cost.

Music isn't just a pleasure, a transient satisfaction. It's a need, a deep hunger; and when the music is right, it's joy. Love. A foretaste of heaven. A comfort in grief. Is it too much to think that perhaps God speaks to us sometimes through music? How, then, could I be so ungrateful as to refuse the message?

If the Church has no the authority to tell its members that they may not engage in homosexual practices, then it has no authority at all. And if we accept the argument of the hypocrites of homosexuality that their sin is not a sin, we have destroyed ourselves.