Autumn can be glorious but menacing too - the long shadows, brisk winds, scurrying leaves, impending frost.

The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth

I'm only myself when I have a guitar in my hands.

Barring love I'll take my life in large doses alone--rivers, forests, fish, grouse, mountains. Dogs.

The wilderness does not make you forget your normal life so much as it removes the distractions for proper remembering.

The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.

Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness and they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy, or they become legends.

In a life properly lived, you're a river.

There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.

I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.

The liberties of a people depend on their own constant attention to its preservation.

Friendship can be obtained from anyone at any time. It knows no difference between age, gender, or even species.

Stop shoulding on yourself

Sometimes the difference between success and failure is simply the degree to which you crave one over the other.

Probably every subject is interesting if an avenue into it can be found that has humanity and that an ordinary person can follow.

I think that Ring of Honor is a true alternative in the world of pro wrestling. Some of the best in-ring pure competition in the world you will find in Ring of Honor.

Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth.

Without raising human consciousness, whatever we do in the world will only lead to more and more suffering.

I don't doll myself up for TV because I want people to accept me for who I am.

He that denies any of the doctrines that Christ has delivered, to be true, denies him to be sent from God, and consequently to be the Messiah; and so ceases to be a Christian.

I don't know if acting is what I want to do for the rest of my life, it's just what I've, you know, ended up doing when I was little, and I've kinda grown up with it.