You want to be happy? You want to be well? Then put your boots on.

... there is a whole hell of a lot of knowledge about the (expletive removed) human condition that we are not ready for.

I'd been at the mercy of a prick on a power trip, the kind of buttoned-up bantam rooster who gets off on control and then, when you resist him, tells you that you've got issues with control.

Any society that justifies violence against any human being for any reason will be a violent society. It will ultimately infect and affect the whole society. Everyone will suffer.

Each story provides a beginning, a middle and an end, the trick is, never seperate them through the chapters or you'll miss the meaning of the entire book.

[On her mastectomy:] Fact is, I'm the same car I always was, except now I have a dent in my fender.

It's very frustrating not being on the air.

When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting.

I think it's important to evolve and grow and take risks creatively, instead of repeating yourself and doing the same thing over and over.

My songs have always had hope and perseverance in them - I never write songs that have no escape hatch, no positivity.

Lone women shouldn't stop in the middle of nowhere for giant unkempt strangers with duct tape on their faces.

Obeying God is listening to God, having an open heart to follow the path that God points out to us.

With sufficient planning, you can almost eliminate adventure from an expedition.