Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self- solitude is the enemy of well- being.

We are most alive when we're in love.

Life is a nacho. It can be yummy-crunchy or squishy-yucky. It just depends on how long it takes for you to start eating it.

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.

The scissors cut the long-grown hair; The razor scrapes the remnant fuzz. Small-jawed, weak-chinned, big-eyed, I stare At the forgotten boy I was.

It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls.

Don't keep your nation-changing thoughts to yourself. Else it won't actually change the nation. Impact!

It's always nice being wanted. Even if it's by the wrong person.

But early on I saw this: You are wasting time by suffering twice. I mention this only to show how many things the mind cannot will itself to do, even if it wants to.

The luxury to disparage freedom is the privilege of those who already possess it.

If somebody dies and you just go get more popcorn, it’s a superficial experience isn’t it?

Devotion is not about a God. Devotion is about you making your emotions so sweet that your life experience becomes beautiful.

Like most Catholic boys, I wanted to be Jesus Christ. I could never get the turn-the-other-cheek thing down, though.

Passion and love for a brand and its consumers sustain us. For how can we ever devote our continued highest energy to something if we don't believe in it passionately.

In the act of love, as in photography, there is a form of life and a kind of slow death.

Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.