Going to school is an everyday process; it isn't something we accomplish and are all done with.

We must think nationally about the [trails] system and act locally to link trails and make the system happen.

We have to put in our time every day to try and achieve and learn so that we can develop our talents and each of you, thank goodness, have special talents; each of you are special persons.

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Not all sons were like their fathers. A son chose the man he would be.Not all daughters were like their fathers. A daughter monster chose the monster she would be.

Now this is the first rule of fight club: There is nothing a blue collar Nobody in Oregon with a public school education can imagine that a million-billion people haven't already done.

Sin had no sooner come into the world than God came in grace seeking the sinner, and so from the first question, 'Adam, where art thou?' on to the incarnation, God has been speaking to man.

I love being in a brothers band. I have no desire to move away from it at all.

There are times not to flirt. When you're sick. When you're with children. When you're on the witness stand.

If ruling our world stems from developing certainty in our sanity, how do we discover it? The Shambhala teachings instruct us to "put our mind of fearfulness in the cradle of loving-kindnes."

But the less a man knows about the past and the present the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.

People continue to fear dying, only because no one ever has.

I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.