If I could be a country music star, I'd do it in a heartbeat. I'd hit the road and just jam out.

I always say whoever can figure out how to make ice cream healthy will be a gazillionaire.

I'm a procrastinator. That's a pretty bad habit.

I love to sing, but I'm just terrible. I play guitar, and I play enough where I can play most country stuff, and I'll sing when it's just me.

As for restaurants, I'd say I'm always down for Wendy's. A little fry dipping in a Frosty - that's a good deal.

Trees were so rare in that country, and they had to make such a hard fight to grow, that we used to feel anxious about them, and visit them as if they were persons.

A butterfly has landed on a patch of milk parsley. Wings held vertically so it’s not going anywhere - for the time being. Once he would have leant across and seized it. Now he’ll let it fly.

Trust was now a four-letter word.

The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all man's slavery

If you want to ask one question, ask yourself, what are you giving to the universe and only that will be returned.

This is a very tough business, politics. It's easy to get resentful or full of bitterness ... (but) I think hatred hurts the hater more than the hated. So I'm looking back on my time positively.

... Let us risk the wildest places, Lest we go down in comfort, and despair.

I find there's almost no place to put an award that one's quite comfortable with.

When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity.

Truly, hope is the saint's covering, wherein he wraps himself, when he lays his body down to sleep in the grave: "My flesh," saith David, "shall rest in hope."