The look of a smug teacher is priceless.

I’m clinging to one last thought: pain is the harbinger of hope. You have to be alive to feel pain. If you are alive, then you have purpose. If you have purpose, then you have hope.

In total this journey will take five flights and fifty-five hours, but in reality it began four decades and two generations ago when my uncle died in Vietnam.

I felt so much pride, so much love. You get a handful of days like this in a lifetime. Take in every minute. They’ll be over soon enough, and you never know what tomorrow will bring.

A son for a flag is a lot of sacrifice.

The meeting began well, meaning it had the potential for being short.

I felt like I should salute. If only I knew how.

Military life is hard, even cruel—especially for the kids.

We all lose people. We all have to live in the aftermath. It’s how we move forward that counts, but sometimes we are tethered to something in our past that won’t let us move forward.

This is who I was, before I was dead. When I cared, when I was relentless.

We could never go back to how things were on the day before 9/11, but maybe I could go back to who I was.

God is my King.

I can not bear to see such woes of the heart in the eyes of my beloved.

I want to thank everyone out there who has chosen not to drive after they have had something to drink.

You cannot hide; your growth as an artist is not separate from your growth as a human being: it is all visible.

There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily

A hermit is one who renounces the world of fragments that he may enjoy the world wholly and without interruption.

I think it's really important these days to be able to relate to how the music flows and be able to speak the same language as your bandmates and the producer, rather than just talking drums.

There has been peace. There will be peace again. But right now, we have work to do.

Never let your fears be the boundaries of your dreams. Happiness is a direction, not a place.

Master your breath, let the self be in bliss, contemplate on the sublime within you.