Like many people who live in the South, I'm drawn to the history of the Civil War.

That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered.

Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.

I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart.

You are, and always have been, my dream.

In the blink of an eye, something happens by chance - when you least expect it - sets you on a course that you never planned, into a future you never imagined.

I want you to be.... happy.

I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?

The scariest thing about distance is that you don’t know whether they’ll miss you or forget you.

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.

Writing the last page of the first draft is the most enjoyable moment in writing. It's one of the most enjoyable moments in life, period.

Never hesitate to go far away, beyond all seas, all frontiers, all countries, all beliefs.

Assassins: they got sass and live on sin.

You can do what you will: but at each given moment of your life you can will only one determined thing and by no means anything other than this one.

I always thought it was important for my lyrics to come from a really honest place.

There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents-if the term is to be used at all.

Future public education will require involvement and collaboration among various local, civic, private and nonprofit entities, a concept I like to refer to as community entrepreneurship.

You cannot compensate by sacrifice what you lose through disobedience

I am profoundly skeptical about our abilities to predict the future in general, and human behavior in particular.

I had one or two steady girlfriends in high school, but then in college, it was three, four... I went crazy. At one point I had three separate girlfriends, running around mad.

Mistakes are doorways to discovery.