space and silence are necessary because it is only when the mind is alone, uninfluenced, untrained, not held by infinite varieties of experience, that it can come upon something totally new.

Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.

Passion is a rather frightening thing because if you have passion you don't know where it will take you.

It is only the innocent mind which knows what love is, and the innocent mind can live in the world which is not innocent.

To understand ourselves needs no authority either of yesterday or of a thousand years because we are living things, always moving, flowing, never resting.

virtue can flower only when there is freedom.

A man who knows what it is to have humility is a vain man.

All theories are legitimate, no matter. What matters is what you do with them.

Anti-digital mindsets are those “status quo” types of thinking, authoritarian attitude, and bureaucratic decision-making.

We learned pretty early on in this band that you can't have snobbery in music.

In the tradition of the classic songwriter rooms like The Bluebird in Nashville, Strange Brew is a gift to the music community in Austin, for artists and audiences alike

Give me a man who is man enough to give himself just to the woman who is worth him. If that woman were me,I would love him alone and forever

For men to tell how human life began Is hard; for who himself beginning knew?

The heavens do not send good haps in handfuls; but let us pick out our good by little, and with care, from out much bad, that still our little world may know its king.

Fortune is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.

Rather throw away that which is dearest to you, your own life, than turn away a good friend.

I have done a lot of things off the field but I feel like in my heart I dont really have to publicize what I do for people because it is from my heart.