The present's just a pleasant interruption to the past.

And seemingly as winter has become spring, confusion has become insight.

You don't have to push or pull or fight or win, the struggle is illusory. Sometimes or rather, all times, you just have to be.

...You know what I mean?

Things are fragile, but we're all being carried and I think we're all on our path in that sense. As fragile as things are, we're still getting there.

I think human beings make life beautiful. There's a lot of beauty in everything. I think what makes life beautiful is the ability to acknowledge that.

I think that's the most important thing: when life kind of screws you over a little bit, you've got to learn from that experience.

I have a really hard time connecting to music that doesn't feel like I'm somehow solving a puzzle that applies to my life.

You're gonna get thrown curve balls left and right, and that's just the way it goes.

This is to the world and how god damn beautiful it is.

I have found that searching for insight is more often than not a path to total darkness

We always emerge from the death of a loved one like a phoenix arising from its funeral pyre.

Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity as well as the inalienable right to govern himself with reason and justice.

Nothing is too small to matter.

I can't think of anything off the top of my head that seems more important than something designed to raise money to keep something going that keeps IV drug users from dying.

When the penalty for a policeman's mistake is to put a criminal back out on the street, then we are hurting America; we are hurting our law-abiding citizens.

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I'm running against a woman who's got David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel running her campaign.

Human concepts, no matter how grand they may appear, have limitations.

I'm a jock and I'm an athlete, and that's what I love to do.

There seldom is enmity between seasoned old politicians, who know as much as men can of human weakness and human strength.