People are simply incapable of prolonged, sustained goodness.

Life is everywhere. The earth is throbbing with it - it's like music. The plants, the creatures, the ones we see, the ones we don't see, it's like one, big, pulsating symphony.

Trees like to have kids climb on them, but trees are much bigger than we are, and much more forgiving.

Let's not kid ourselves. Whatever we diagnose, most patients, if they don't die, get well by themselves. Our job is mainly to try to make them feel better; do no harm.

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Only internal bliss is perpetual, nothing else is created to last. That's why God lives within us and all storms pass

I want to be somebody, a person, first that people remember, but also, I want music that I release to still be around. I don't want it to just be cool for a second and be gone.

My mom would put me in these preppy little suits and slick my hair to the side. I have these baby pictures of me where I'm this little preppy kid with a sweater tied around my neck.

Once I have a vision of something I want to accomplish, I tend to slog doggedly toward my goal until I achieve it; this is a skill from my youth.

I have never yet heard any middle-aged man or woman who worked with his or her brains express any regret for the passing of youth.

The administration still wants to govern from the far-left and that's going to produce kind a partisan result here in the Congress.

I pity the people who don't like to read, because then they spend their whole lives stuck in this one world and don't get to discover any others.

Basically, what you really want to do is try to engage the viewer's body relation to his thinking and walking and looking, without being overly heavy-handed about it.

Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.

You tend to close your eyes to truth, beauty and goodness because they give no scope to your sense of the ridiculous.