Listen, wait, and be patient. Every shaman knows you have to deal with the fire that's in your audience's eye.

Since we don't know where we're going, we have to stick together in case someone gets there.

Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.

Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself.

If you've got love in your heart, whatever you do from that moment out is likely to be right. If you've got that one true note ringing inside you, then whatever you do is going to be OK.

You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.

You can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples are in the seed.

All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down.

He Who Marches Out Of Step Hears Another Drum

The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.

You've got to get out and pray to the sky to appreciate the sunshine; otherwise you're just a lizard standing there with the sun shining on you.

I’m a dinosaur, he thought, lumbering through a world where truthtellersare despised.

We are more than the person who wakes each day. We are the dreams of the previous night and the nightmares of the week before.

She cried aloud, with a great mourning cry for all that she had never known in this life, and the agony of a bereavement unguessed till this moment.

Falling in love was the easy part planning a wedding - yikes!

Women overrate the influence of fine dress and the latest fashions upon gentlemen; and certain it is, that the very expensiveness of such attire frightens the beholder from all ideas of matrimony.

Surrender to alcohol intoxication provides a partial and subjective shortcut to a more correct state of mind.

The distinction between good and evil is meaningless if one does not have the freedom to choose between them.

The fact that people will pay you to talk to people and travel to interesting places and write about what intrigues you, I am just amazed by that.

My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin.

Failure is not a crime. The crime is not trying.