A life which has never been laid open in penitence and faith before God has little permanence in eternity.

The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth

I'm only myself when I have a guitar in my hands.

Barring love I'll take my life in large doses alone--rivers, forests, fish, grouse, mountains. Dogs.

The wilderness does not make you forget your normal life so much as it removes the distractions for proper remembering.

The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.

Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness and they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy, or they become legends.

In a life properly lived, you're a river.

There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.

I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.

The liberties of a people depend on their own constant attention to its preservation.

Let the beauty radiate from inside your heart to the outside world.

When you act with your heart, the universe conspires to help with your act.

In his arms, I slowly unfolded like a love note read in secret.

A sincere call to the Almighty can change what you may have thought was impossible to change. Never lose hope.

Sometimes a thought is closer to truth, to reality, than an action. You can say anything, you can do anything, but you can't fake a thought.

It doesn't matter where I am - China will stay in me. I don't know how far I can still walk on this road and what is the limit.

Six feet three in her stocking feet, LWren Scott was every inch a great lady.

You're basically the same person forever so you find the same stuff funny forever. The Muppet Show spoke to me at 5 and it speaks to me in my late 30s in the same way.

Live Aid turned our world upside down.

I don't owe people anything, and I don't have to talk to them any more than I feel I need to.