You can't choose what you're famous for in life.

Nothing can do what a book can do. Lifts you out of your life... to a whole new world, whole new perspective. A book is like a dream you're borrowing from a friend.

Remove every barrier you can to fandom. A fan will be an evangelist for your work.

The English language was carefully, carefully cobbled together by three blind dudes and a German dictionary

School is learning things you don't want to know, surrounded by people you wish you didn't know, while working toward a future you don't know will ever come.

We all have such a finite time to leave the world better than we found it.

Wherever you are, wherever you go, be sure to spread the light.

Yes, he said, taking her hand. And now I think I finally understand that old expression - a sight for sore eyes.

If you are going to walk with Jesus Christ, you are going to be opposed.... In our days, to be a true Christian is really to become a scandal.

A watched pot never boils, but if I took my eyes from these negative thoughts for a second they would spill over the edges of my lips, and boil the beautiful moment alive as we lived it.

The more you know, the more you see

I wrote The Same Sea not as a political allegory about Israelis and Palestinians. I wrote it about something much more gutsy and immediate. I wrote it as a piece of chamber music.

Such widely different things as war and picnics will surely show a man up.

It's hard to go out in front of people with an acoustic guitar and improvise for 30 or 40 minutes, but I had a compulsion to do it. I just had to in a way that I can't really explain.

I think so much depends on how you are feeling mentally and emotionally. I try to keep my head on tight, and try to feel good, and just go out there and not be afraid.

Half-heartedness doesn't reach into majesty. You set out to find God, but then you keep stopping for long periods at meanspirited roadhouses.