Respect both what you need to know and what you don't need to know. Respect mystery, for mystery is still needed to run the universe.

Just because you're breathing, doesn't mean you're alive.

Becoming a man means doing the right thing even though it may be hard or difficult. Boys do what is easiest. A man does what is right, whether easy or not.

Only you can know the difference between your wants and your needs, and your sacrifice of your life's time to both.

Reading teaches us the nuances of humanity. To find the beauty of what is moral and ethical in your own actions and discover the strange subtlety of what it is to question why you should exist.

A good man lives for the joy in life and the happiness of being alive, not shackled to the wants of the future or the regrets of the past.

You know there's got to be a better way of life - somewhere, sometime, somehow - but you're not exactly sure what better is.

Sometimes we make being happy so difficult. And being thankful such a chore.

Time. Either you are for it or against it. So be here now. Not later.

Sometimes I feel as if I'm only a doorman awaiting the arrival of her royal majesty.

I gather the last remnants of the evening’s breeze, so cool and lazy within my arms, feeling it curl up like a small and innocent kitten.

Truth is independent of all dogmas, ancient or modern.

I always thought Kurt Cobain was the perfect embodiment of the great alternative guitar player.

I know I can't stay here forever

My grandparents back in Kentucky owned a tobacco farm. So to make money in the summer we could cut and chop and top and house and strip the tobacco.

I'm impatient sometimes.

I scientifically engineer my music to be as accessible as possible.

Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved; and to be steady on all the battlefield besides, is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point.

I didn't take inspiration from other photographers, which in a way helped to find my own images.

I remember watching Looney Tunes cartoons and having the music stuck in my head.

By learning of Him, by believing in Him, by following Him, there is the capacity to become like Him.