Get out and find ...the country. And ourselves.

Somewhere lives a bad Cajun cook, just as somewhere must live one last ivory-billed woodpecker. For me, I don't expect ever to encounter either one.

Be careful going in search of adventure - it's ridiculously easy to find.

Instead of insight, maybe all a man gets is strength to wander for a while.

Beware thoughts that come in the night.

...who can say where a voyage starts - not the the actual passage but the dream of a journey and its urge to find a way?

A true journey, no matter how long the travel takes, has no end.

Without the errors, wrong turns and blind alleys, without the doubling back and misdirection and fumbling and chance discoveries, there was not one bit of joy in walking the labyrinth.

On the old highway maps of America, the main routes were red and the back roads blue. Now even the colors are changing.

The biggest hindrance to learning is fear of showing one's self a fool.

I can't say, over the miles, that I had learned what I had wanted to know because I hadn't known what I wanted to know. But I did learn what I didn't know I wanted to know.

G - God’sR - RedemptionA - AtC - Christ’sE - Expense

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

I had to study acting to basically educate myself.

We never make a decision. When the time is right, the decision makes itself.

Writing a book makes you an expert in the field. At the very least, when you hand someone a book you wrote, it's more impressive than handing a business card.

If you're still in a bar when the lights go on, you are a loser.

You have to be decisive. Indecisiveness is a startup killer.

You can't take a crash course in serenity.

The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance.

Sin has the devil for its father, shame for its companion, and death for its wages.