Adventures are only interesting once you've lived to see the end of them. Before that, they are nothing but fear, and being too cold or too hot or too wet or too hungry, and getting hurt.

I have never yet figured out what to do about good advice that you get, and that you know right away would help you, but that you cannot follow.

My heartfelt wish for you: as you get older, your self will diminish and you will grow in love.

Government just simply can't do everything for everyone.

Every time I get on an airplane I figure it's gonna get blown up. You live on the edge.

I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction, you're going to get bashed by critics.

It always seems impossible until its done.

I used to be such a militant city-ist, but more and more I've seen forests and nature and oceans, and I don't know any more if this is the awesomest way to live.

Jesus measured greatness in terms of service not status. God determines your greatness by how many people you serve, not how many people serve you.

Making music, being creative in some primal way, should be fun. Listening to it or playing it can and should take you out of yourself for some brief blissful moments.

If you want to do something to destroy consumer spending, just eat away at the middle class because the other problem we have is the structural problem of middle class America.