We are all mediums for our own basic truths. All we really have in life is the primal force that moves us through our days – our unvarnished, untutored, ever-present, inborn agency.

The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth

I'm only myself when I have a guitar in my hands.

Barring love I'll take my life in large doses alone--rivers, forests, fish, grouse, mountains. Dogs.

The wilderness does not make you forget your normal life so much as it removes the distractions for proper remembering.

The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.

Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness and they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy, or they become legends.

In a life properly lived, you're a river.

There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.

I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.

The liberties of a people depend on their own constant attention to its preservation.

Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.

For the Lord touched all parts of creation, and freed and undeceived them all from every deceit.

It's one thing to stick to your guns. It's quite another to hold those guns to the heads of your citizens.

The perspective is more important than the perception

Trust yourself and do what you want to do!!

John McCain will pay hundreds of dollars for his own shoes. But we're the ones who have to pay for his flip-flops.

August brings into sharp focus and a furious boil everything I've been listening to in the late spring and summer.

I watch a man shoot pool for an hour. If he misses more than one shot, I know I can beat him.

To take all that we are and have and hand it over to God may not be easy; but it can be done; and when it is done, the world has in it one less candidate for misery.

Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.