Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.

Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.

Handwriting is more connected to the movement of the heart.

We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded.

I used to think freedom meant doing whatever you want. It means knowing who you are, what you are supposed to be doing on this earth, and then simply doing it.

This is your life. You are responsible for it. You will not live forever. Don't wait.

Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can’t forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting to be released.

It is odd that we never question the feasibility of a football team practicing long hours for one game; yet in writing we rarely give ourselves the space for practice.

Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.

Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.

The problem is we think we exist.

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands but let it go and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

I never took a position we were going to be a good ball club. I took the position we were going to be a winning ball club.

Take a quart of nature, boil it down to a pint, and the residue is art.

If those who hold influence over others fail to lead toward the spiritual uplands, then surely the path to the lowlands will be well worn.

Im not impressed by anything the Miami Heat does.

Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells. Those who think and those who create with words are the guardians of this home.

I believe that you tend to create your own blessings. You have to prepare yourself so that when opportunity comes, you're ready.

I'm playing; I'm here. I'm going to fight until they tell me they don't want me anymore.

I am a sect by myself, as far as I know.

Since the inception of Gym Class in 1997, every member has had another musical outlet, if not three or four.