From the solitude of the wood (Man) has passed to the more dreadful solitude of the heart.

If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.

When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone.

It has been said repeatedly that one can never, try as he will, get around to the front of the universe. Man is destined to see only its far side, to realize nature only in retreat.

If it should turn out that we have mishandled our own lives as several civilizations before us have done, it seems a pity that we should involve the violet and the tree frog in our departure.

The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness.

It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows and love for a time in the wilderness.

The journey is difficult, immense. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know.

Each one of us is a statistical impossibility around which hover a million other lives that were never destined to be born.

We cannot pluck a flower witout disturbing a star.

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.

New Orleans, city of roaches, city of decay, city of our family, and of happy, happy people.

When we dropped 'Toot It And Boot It, ' Mustard didn't even do beats, and now he's killin' it. So it's just cool to see all of my bros taking over.

Commitment is an act, not a word.

It's all I have left in my life, caffeine and a poodle.

In relative youth, we assume we'll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.

Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

It's too easy to sum up a person's character in one negative instant, and it doesn't put anything good out into the world.

The worst thing about being lied to, is realizing they don't think you're worth the truth.

Love surrounds me and protects me.

If the Christians who were alive in the 1770s behaved and believed like the Christians of today, there wouldn't be an America as we know it.