Have a holly jolly Christmas!

How I longed to see these things; how I longed to see the Liberty Bell and walk on the streets where Thomas Jefferson, Tom Paine and Benjamin Franklin had walked.

The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before me lay a long gray line with a black mark down the center. The birds were singing. It was spring.

When you've set goals and dreams, you don't feel old.

I think my life has been a long, slow process of trying to move closer and closer to the spirit by moving closer and closer to the heart. The heart is what's important.

To be a man requires that you accept everything life has to give you, beginning with your name.

I went to my room and packed a change of clothes, got my banjo, and started walking down the road. Soon I found myself on the open highway headed east.

I'm a law-abiding man. That is, if there's any law to abide by.

Never trust a man who teaches about death but yet had no real experience at all about it.

It was the literary equivalent of a brown paper bag.

The living are made of nothing but flaws. The dead, with each passing day in the afterlife, become more and more impeccable to those who remain earthbound.

I would prefer to have no money but to have a nice family and good friends around.

At the end of the day, God's love for me, for you, and for the world is settled at the cross.

The essence of nature guiding is to travel gracefully rather than arrive

We are the same as plants, as trees, as other people, as the rain that falls. We consist of that which is around us, we are the same as everything.

I'm an extremely vulnerable person. Vulnerability and emotion are very closely linked.

I don't wear a watch. How do I know my time? I find that someone will always tell me.

There's endless possibilities to taking music into the future by using music that actually was 100 years old.