Better the last smile than the first laughter.

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

In a calm sea every man is a pilot.

Wedlock is a padlock.

He that preaches war is the devil's chaplain.

Listeners ne'er hear good of themselves.

He is wise that can make a friend of a foe.

Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.

He that uses many words for explaining any subject, doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink.

Good words cool more than cold water.

Where love fails we espy all faults.

Since God is truth, a contempt for truth is equally a contempt for God.

I am very simple and kind of a man to be a politician.

I am done looking for love where it doesn’t exist. I am done coughing up dust in attempts to drink from dry wells.

Fire tries gold misfortune men.

But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career, like album sleeves and, to some extent, posters and things like that.

Humor is necessary - it allows the reader to come up for air before dunking them under again. I need humor and I need it on the page to keep the reader going.

The highest form of bliss is living with a certain degree of folly

I don't really ever live my life in fear. I really live my life in gratitude and feeling positive for the most part.

There is no hierarchy of elder knowledge in my social region of things. There are only people learning and sharing in a very complex environment.

There is no way to re-enchant our lives in a disenchanted culture except by becoming renegades from that culture and planting the seeds for a new one.