I always tell my students, about the biggest baddest things in life you must try to write small and light, save the big writing for the unexpected tiny thing that always makes or breaks a story.

Dogs change lives. Half Buddha, half Bozo, they keep us tethered to the earth, and teach us to fly. Our dogs are our sanity keepers.

When I was a little kid, I used to walk miles and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles of railroad tracks.

I've been to a lot of school and read a lot of thick books, but at my very core there's a made-for-TV-movie mentality I don't think i will ever shake.

Movement helps keep me centered. I am a disaster, for instance, at sitting meditation, but I'm pretty decent at walking meditation.

Life gives us what we need when we need it; receiving what it gives us is a whole other thing.

I've always said the toughest thing about learning to feel your feelings is that then you have to feel your feelings.

Stillness is a harder concept for me than ecstasy, but I can imagine it best when I am fully present and paying strict attention to a place I am moving through.

One thing I'm always thinking about myself is what am I willing to make up? And the answer is not much.

It's September 21st, a day I love for the balance it carries with it.

There was something about the prairie for me—it wasn’t where I had come from, but when I moved there it just took me in and I knew I couldn’t ever stop living under that big sky.

The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.

Whoever suffers knows the strength of suffering.

Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilisation.

The economic game is not supposed to be rigged like some shady ring toss on a carnival midway.

Faking your own death is illegal, yet faking your own life is celebrated

When I went to school, I was already reading and writing. In fact, I was offended that the other kids couldn't.

I always wanted to have my own farm. I've never been able to achieve that. It's kinda tough.

My first guitar, a Fender Jazz Master, I traded it in for a Les Paul Deluxe.

I think that we all have something in common in that we have dreams. The thing about dreams is sometimes you get to live them out.

I wasn't hugely popular at school. In fact, I was bullied at school.