My father told me once that the most important thing every man should know is what he would die for.

Her forehead was a maze of anxious little grooves, from a lifetime of wondering about whether everyone within range was OK.

A bore or an uggo might manage not to get up anyone's nose, but if a girl's got brains and looks and personality, she's going to piss someone off, somewhere along the way.

We were still at the age when girls are years older than guy, and the guys grow up by doing their best when the girls need them to.

When you can be this, why are you ever anything else? - Broken Verses

Sometimes those who love most deeply can't get past the weight of their own feelings.

Do we need weapons to fight wars? Or do we need wars to create markets for weapons?

The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts but by his ordinary doing.

I just want to be a better guitar player, really.

My goal has always been to just kind of show how my family, we might be a different culture, but we're completely like everybody else.

Every good army needs a couple of criminals.

We can't say what enlightenment is, we can't say what it isn't, because these are words and words have nothing to do with reality.

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.

even God could do nothing for someone already full. You have to be completely empty to let Him in to do what He will.