I gotta take notes when things occur to me.

35 million people in the U.S. are hungry or don't know where their next meal is coming from, and 13 million of them are children. If another country were doing this to our children, we'd be at war.

Live like you're already dead, man. Have a good time. Do your best. Let it all come ripping right through you.

If you change partners every time it gets tough or you get a little dissatisfied, then I don't think you get the richness that's available in a long-term relationship.

It's not enough just to treat women well. We have to work to make sure all men treat women well.

It's a wonderful metaphor, catching a wave, for how you can look at other challenges in your life.

Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't.

My wife holds the kite strings that let me go 'weeeeeee', then she reels me back in.

I've had really great experiences working with first-time directors. They come at filmmaking with fresh ideas. I've been very lucky that way.

Everyone I meet is in my sangha. I don't know if that's the proper definition, but that's the way I'm going to hold it in my mind.

You've got to take care of yourself on the path, not just when you cross the goal line, because don't forget, wherever you are, that's the goal line.

They burnt down the whole palace and they laughed menacingly. The shadows of the dreams and memories they burnt alive walked all over the ruins, trying to hold on to the charred pieces of their body.

A library is a hospital for the mind.

You can have all the wine and dragons that my money can buy. That’s what the old woman told me, and I listened.

Contentment is both the fruit and the tree.

My dad and grandpa were in the army and as a country singer you're constantly playing at military bases all across the country and meeting soldiers and their families and hearing their stories.

Producing perfection from imperfection is, after all, the highest of art forms.

A small drop of ink makes thousands, perhaps millions... think.

The judges of England have rarely been original thinkers or great jurists. Many have been craftsmen rather than creators.

Writing is like a sport - you only get better if you practice

So valuable to heaven is the dignity of the human soul that every member of the human race has a guardian angel from the moment the person begins to be.