A community narrows down and grows dreadful ignorant when it is shut up to its own affairs, and gets no knowledge of the outside world except from a cheap, unprincipled paper.

It was mortifying to find how strong the habit of idle speech may become in one’s self. One need not always be saying something in this noisy world.

I couldn't help thinkin' if she was as far out o' town as she was out o' tune, she wouldn't get back in a day.

Some things unfold with time

Of all America’s natural resources, its richest is an inexhaustible vein of irony.

Change holds danger, but also the potential for something new ~ and better ~ to be born.

Fear that makes faith may break faith.

I've learned to surround myself with women who lift me up and leave me feeling nurtured rather than drained.

I want my music to be able to tell a story about what I've experienced and what I think my fans will be able to understand also.

Image is what people perceive my life to be. It's nothing like the truth.

The aim of science is not things themselves, as the dogmatists in their simplicity imagine, but the relation between things.

I do assume that a character or a place is inexhaustible and will always reward further attention.

Wonderful, a death match on my first day behind bars. Some girls have all the luck