Live life as an observer but not a spectator. Learn the rules, get in the game, break some rules. Live. Experience. There is no exhilaration to be achieved sitting on the bench.

Travel, for me, is a breathtaking experience. A humbling for the soul and the realization that we are all in this together.

We are leashed by societal norms, defined by our willingness to conform, but limited only by our imagination.

Just as like finds like, love finds love. Embrace it. Be open and giving. Accept love with kindness, grace, and spirit.

Thoughts are magnetic. What we think about we attract.

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

People want to give everybody a pass, but leadership comes at a price.

I don't think being a lawyer is more or less valuable than being a writer.

Knowledge no longer exists if one has ignored the attributes of the Almighty Great Creator.

That [Louisiana culture] was all very new to me. I read books and watched documentaries, just trying to immerse myself.

Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it.

Sometimes I play something, and I haven't recorded it, and I don't know where it came from, why my hands did what they did, what key it was in, anything.

If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.