Now, all that I feared would happen has happened. We are at war all over the world, and we are unprepared for it from either a spiritual or a material standpoint.

If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

Success is not measured by what a man accomplishes, but by the opposition he has encountered and the courage with which he has maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

Life without risks is not worth living.

Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.

Isn't it strange that we talk least about the things we think about most?

Sometimes, flying feels too godlike to be attained by man. Sometimes, the world from above seems too beautiful, too wonderful, too distant for human eyes to see .

I would rather live one day in Maui than one month in New York.

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.

If one took no chances, one would not fly at all. Safety lies in the judgment of the chances one takes.

Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.

The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right.

A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.

If you don't try and explore genres and have freedom of creativity, you're just wasting your position as a pop band.

But I believe the greatest enemy of the Bible is the so-called Christian who simply ignores the Bible or disregards it.

Don't let dialog about your company happen without your perspective.

Children need adult men in their lives.

Your legs are not giving out. Your head is giving out. Keep going.

I knew how touring was for 10 years, but it's completely different now that things are popping off.

What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.

Being a writer is an endless study in human transition and lessons learned or forgotten or misapplied.