There was healing in the tyranny, and tyranny in the healing.

Pain too much to handle also comes with exquisite beauty, as common as dirt, as unexpected as grace.

In this waiting, there is witness.

The line between the living and the dead may not be much of a line at all, but the terrain is not for the weak of heart.

Honoring a life is honoring the wide open space of wilderness and unknowing where the sacred dwells.

Resurrection does not come without crucifixion, and you cannot celebrate Easter without living Good Friday.

Are we meant to be pilgrims of the depths?

What is known might sometimes sustain us, but what is unknown will save us.

Grief would weave itself among the threads of love and life and hope, and I was starting to believe that what came of it all would still one day be beautiful.

Tracks were adumbrations of the energy of life all about us, the recent history book of wilderness.

Engage in the work that brings you joy.

I want to be able to make people laugh as hard as they possibly can, and I really think they need that.

I think an important quality that I have is that if you turn on the radio and hear somebody sing, you know it's me. You don't confuse my voice with another voice.

Sometimes what seems like surrender isn't surrender at all. It's about what's going on in your own hearts.

I'm a staunch civil libertarian; I really believe that the individual is more important than any societal value.

Future U.S. political leaders – those for whom the Cold War was not the formative experience that it was for me – may not consider the return on America’s investment in NATO worth the cost.

I used to ask Sean questions about acting. He's a brilliant actor, but I could never digest his information. I work primarily on an intuitive level.

For there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.

I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.

The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously, and those who have produced immortal works have done so without knowing how or why.