What is known might sometimes sustain us, but what is unknown will save us.

Pain too much to handle also comes with exquisite beauty, as common as dirt, as unexpected as grace.

There was healing in the tyranny, and tyranny in the healing.

In this waiting, there is witness.

The line between the living and the dead may not be much of a line at all, but the terrain is not for the weak of heart.

Honoring a life is honoring the wide open space of wilderness and unknowing where the sacred dwells.

Resurrection does not come without crucifixion, and you cannot celebrate Easter without living Good Friday.

Are we meant to be pilgrims of the depths?

Grief would weave itself among the threads of love and life and hope, and I was starting to believe that what came of it all would still one day be beautiful.

Tracks were adumbrations of the energy of life all about us, the recent history book of wilderness.

Sweep the board with Cosmic Ordering Success.

It really is an honor if I can be inspirational to a younger singer or person. It means I've done my job.

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

...if it comes to a choice between regulated studies on a few animals and a treatment for an incurable disease... most people reluctantly make the same choice.

The most pernicious of all taxes are the arbitrary.

Upon the highest ridge of that round hill covered with planted oaks, the shafts of the trees show in the light like the columns of a ruin.

To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.

You can't run the economy on BMWs alone. If the average person is in a pickle, how do you have a healthy economy?

I'm a vampire, idiot. I don't have x-ray vision." "Some supernatural monster you are, remind me to trade you in for a werewolf, bro. Probably be more useful right now.