I don't think a lot of people are able to relate to genuine patriotism, a genuinely good feeling about our country and its meaning to the rest of the world.

I really love advertising art of the '50s and the way mid-century design was often represented in jazzy, fast art.

Native ability without education is like a tree without fruit.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

You gotta know who you are, I think, as a person, I'm a laidback guy. I'm very simple. It's simplicity with me. Everything else, having the 10 cars or the 20 cars is ludicrous.

The courage of all one really knows comes but late in life.

Holiness is the very principle of eternal life, the very beginning of eternal life in the heart, and that which will certainly grow up to eternal life.

I want to be healed and whole and perfect again, like a misshapen slab of iron that comes out of the fire glowing, glittering, razor-sharp.

If hurts were hairs, we'd all look like grizzlies.

I have always found the female of the human species many times more difficult to understand than the male.

Westerns are fun. I wish more of them would be made. When you're out there on a set, carrying a gun, riding a horse, you kind of get lost in that make believe world.

David Duchovny asked me while I was picking out shoes in the closet. It wasn't a special occasion. He just asked, 'Will you marry me?'