Location pertains to feelings - feelings are bound up in place.

A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

My continuing passion is to part a curtain, that invisible veil of indifference that falls between us and that blinds us to each other's presence, each other's wonder, each other's human plight.

Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers . . . great talkers.

Insight doesn't happen often on the click of the moment, like a lucky snapshot, but comes in its own time and more slowly and from nowhere but within.

No art ever came out of not risking your neck.

it doesn t matter if it takes a long time getting there; the point is to have a destination.

The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation.

We are the breakers of our own hearts

People are mostly layers of violence and tenderness wrapped like bulbs, and it is difficult to say what makes them onions or hyacinths.

He sure put things into words good.

In this business, you gotta hustle.

No ascetic can be considered reliably sane.

It is not the gardener that makes the garden. It is the garden that makes the gardener.

Punishment and reward proceed from basically the same psychological model, one that conceives of motivation as nothing more than the manipulation of behavior.

Take time to be still, in a hallowed place in nature, and you'll discover that you are connected to everything.

Dirksen's Three Laws of Politics: 1. Get elected. 2. Get re-elected. 3. Don't get mad, get even.

Approach life knowing there will be plenty to go around. Be generous.

I often think it's unfair to the listener and "too easy" to just choose one tempo while I make and decide the songs.

I always get bored with my hair. That's why I would always change it throughout my career.