A good life is like a weaving. Energy is created in the tension. The struggle, the pull and tug are everything.

No matter how hard you dance, not everyone will clap

Wisdom is not what comes from reading great books. When it comes to understanding life, experiential learning is the only worthwhile kind, everything else is hearsay.

Lots of old people don't become wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.

Sanity is transmuting all the insane parts of your brain into a creative outlet.

Every generation has found [the Bible’s] message indispensable, and its influence on individuals and society over the centuries has been enormous.

An observer can’t tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy.

It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America.

Love is the child of freedom, never that of domination.

Bruno Mars is pretty fashionable. Gary Clarck Junior, who was also in our ad with Jimmy Page, is a super super stylish guy.

History does not move by leaps into unrelated novelty, but rather by the selective emphasis of aspects of its own immediate past.

I got two stools, in case I want to sit down and sit down again on something else.

Human beings are infinitely worth studying, especially the peculiarities that often go along with outstanding gifts.

People know where romantic comedies are going. It's not brain surgery to figure out the end of a romantic comedy.