Maybe loneliness is an acquired taste, or maybe it's like plunging your hand in ice water--it hurts like hell in the beginning, and then you go numb.

Adversity comes with instruction in its hand.

Growing up, I had the weird fantasy list: I wanted to be Alice Cooper, Steven Spielberg, and Stan Lee. You have to have almost psychotic drive, because you're going to have years of failure.

The future should be exciting, you know? It shouldn't be a nerve-wracking experience.

Life would be grand if it weren't for the people.

Whenever I'm in trouble, I pray. And because I'm in trouble all of the time, I pray almost constantly.

I just feel like all the things that I do in my life just make me feel like a grown-up kid. That's pretty much what I am.

Only caring individuals can restore the places we inhabit. The 'simple act of planting a tree' not only restores the places we live, but makes us whole and powerful again.

I will work when failures seek rest.

Seeking out causes is a pastime of the mind. There is no duality of cause and effect. Everything is its own cause.

Human nature is what Heaven supplies.