Equality of opportunity is freedom, but equality of outcome is repression.

Faith is the soul's adventure.

Poetry needs to be alive, unabashedly, and, for me, that entails seeing its complexity, the grit and grimness and jubilance and beauty.

I've always loved airplanes and flight. The space program was really important to me as a kid. I still have a photo of Armstrong and Aldrin on the moon in my living room.

Human paleontology shares a peculiar trait with such disparate subjects as theology and extraterrestrial biology: it contains more practitioners than objects for study.

I no longer want to walk on worn soles.

Don't play the notes. Play the meaning of the notes.

Without discipline, there is no Marine Corp.

Poised for flight, Wings spread bright, Spring from night into the Sun.

Faith becomes the foundation I'm built on.

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.