Life is seductive, yet so few allow themselves to be seduced.

On my own I generally have very messy hair, wear jeans and sneakers.

Being part of the natural world reminds me that innocence isn't ever lost completely; we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.

I love playing big rooms. There's nothing like it. It's a power trip.

In the end only kindness matters.

I may not be able to pull on the smallest of holds, but those I can pull on I can pull on all day long.

Live your life with love and bravery and you shall lead a life uncommon.

I consider myself a product of Alaska. The love and the debt that I feel to my home state, you always want your hometown to be the proudest of you.

I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.

Reality is what you believe it to be. It's what you put your thought and energy into, because your hands physically manifest thought. So your world becomes what you feel and what you think.

I don't see the world unless I see it in ink.

You can't have living without dying. So you can't call it living, what we got. We just are, we just be, like rocks beside the road.

Don't you have something teenagery to do -- rage against authority, roll your eyes, mooch off your parents?

Prospect is often better than possession.

It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.

A woman told me her child was autistic, and I thought she said artistic. So I said, 'Oh great. I'd like to see some of the things he's done.

Let's be diligent in giving, careful in our living, and faithful in our praying.

It isn't the big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones.

The doctrine of Christ enjoins men, all brothers in His eyes, to love one another.

To pray is, first of all, to let one's mind be empty. It is to cast aside for a while "the self" that has existed until now, letting only God live in one's heart.

The general goodness, which is nourished in noble hearts makes every one think that strength of virtue to be in another whereof they find assured foundation in themselves.