What's scary is the unknown, the stuff you can't put your finger on.

You can get really good reads on your dreams if you think of every character in them as actually being you.

There are only two stories: either you go forward or you die.

Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.

People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative.

Good things never last, bad things never die.

One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.

I am at a place in my life where the more like a cave I can make my surroundings, the happier I am.

I seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.

It usually happens that I have multiple different projects going on at once, and one can be referencing the other.

A bands first albums usually not great. When you made the first album, you had a day job and you were still trying to be serious about it.

In the beginning was love, and love was with God, and love was God.

You can't know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.

After I am dead, I would rather have men ask why Cato has no monument than why he had one.

We sit in meditation and cry to God, we cry to the light, as little children, knowing God will do everything for us.

The man that has anything bountifully laughable about him, be sure there is more in that man than you perhaps think for.

Do the duty which lies nearest to thee.

America that has done more to support Israel than any other country cannot be true to our own values if we allow a viable two-state solution to be destroyed before our own eyes.

Only a more savage nation can survive.

Small businesses drive this economy and it is unacceptable that the President's budget proposal does not give them the tools they need to be successful.

I love people and I love to be around people.