I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.

Our generation has had no Great Depression, no Great War. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave.

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

You know, the condom is the glass slipper of our generation. You slip it on when you meet a stranger. You dance all night, then you throw it away.

If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.

It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.

If you remain calm in the midst of great chaos, it is the surest guarantee that it will eventually subside.

A scout never comes out to scout a team it's the player that they are scouting.

Shoemaker stick to your last.

A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough.

An enlightened entertainer, via story, casts her line into the souls of others, hooks their heart, and pulls their greater potential to the surface.

Oh, now, now, now, the only now, and above all now, and there is no other now but thou now and now is thy prophet.

The whole comes to this, that Christ, when he produces faith in us by the agency of his Spirit, at the same time ingrafts us into his body, that we may become partakers of all spiritual blessings.

I don't feel like God called me to be a Gospel singer. He didn't call me to be a Christian singer, he called me to be a country singer, and I just happen to be a Christian.

Kiss the blackest part of my behind.

Gideon woke up ready to conquer the world, and he liked to start that domination with me. How lucky was I?