Who will save your soul, if you won’t save your own?

On my own I generally have very messy hair, wear jeans and sneakers.

Being part of the natural world reminds me that innocence isn't ever lost completely; we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.

I love playing big rooms. There's nothing like it. It's a power trip.

In the end only kindness matters.

I may not be able to pull on the smallest of holds, but those I can pull on I can pull on all day long.

Live your life with love and bravery and you shall lead a life uncommon.

I consider myself a product of Alaska. The love and the debt that I feel to my home state, you always want your hometown to be the proudest of you.

I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.

Reality is what you believe it to be. It's what you put your thought and energy into, because your hands physically manifest thought. So your world becomes what you feel and what you think.

I don't see the world unless I see it in ink.

I went further on less talent than anyone, but I was a damned good entertainer.

Science frees us in many ways...from the bodily terror which the savage feels. But she replaces that, in the minds of many, by a moral terror which is far more overwhelming.

School didn't work for me. I hated it.

The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.

You can believe something really hard,' Faith says, 'and still be wrong.

There's no reason you should write any novel quickly.

Nay, if there be any mistakes in the Bible, there may as well be a thousand. If there be one falsehood in that book, it did not come from the God of truth

Life involves other people and it is a compromise.

The Federalists also used bribes, intimidation, and fraud against opponents of the Constitution.

In software, the chain isn't as strong as its weakest link; it's as weak as all the weak links multiplied together.