The best way to appreciate our political process is to volunteer for a campaign and support a candidate you believe in.

You can study government and politics in school, but the best way to really understand the process is to volunteer your time.

I think [the death penalty is] very expensive, and the delays are inordinate, delaying closure for the victims' families.

An airport is a potent place, a point of reunions and departures. For the traveler, it's a crossroads at the moment of decision, a flashpoint that separates intention from retreat.

Consuming the content and culture of creatives does not make one a creative. Creating makes a creative.

But how conceive a God supremely good/ Who heaps his favours on the sons he loves, / Yet scatters evil with as large a hand?[Written after an earthquake in Lisbon killed over 15, 000 people]

Twilight and evening bell, and after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell when I embark.

I've had a good day when I don't fall out of the cart.

Always work the ref's blind side.

Listen to the tree; it tells you where it wants to go!

Doing interviews and touring are two ways that I can try to bring my music to people. It can be tiring, but it's better than working at Burger King.

I just think God put me on this earth as a tool... showing people you can achieve stuff once you set you mind to things, that it can be accomplished.

We take almost all the decisive steps in our lives as a result of slight inner adjustments of which we are barely conscious.