You learn to present dark things without including their ability to harm, treasuring them for what they are.

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.

If there is no dream, there will be no hope. If there is no hope there will be no life.

I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck.

Bad humor is an evasion of reality good humor is an acceptance of it.

I actually think I play better now than Ive ever played.

No, we're not looking at how to control criminals... we're talking about banning the AK-47 and semi-automatic guns.

Skill sheets, workbooks, basal reader, flash cards are not enough. To convey meaning you need someone sharing the meaning and flavor of real stories with the student.

The hardest thing for me in Vietnam wasn't seeing the wounded and dead. It was watching the big transport jets come in, bringing loads of fresh new boys for the war.

Reach out, call your family members, if you have children, call them right now.

King Agis said, "The Lacedæmonians are not wont to ask how many, but where the enemy are."

Never has our nation , or our world, stood on the precipice of adversity in such dire need of men answering the cry to rule well.