... the daily world exists because we know how to hold its images; consequently, if one drops the attention needed to maintain those images, the world collapses

Self-importance requires spending most of one's life offended by something or someone.

A warrior lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, nor by thinking about what he will think when he has finished acting.

Never take a path that has no heart in it. You can't lose if your heart is in your work, but you can't win if your heart is not in it.

Things don't change, only the way you look at them.

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye.

In the universe there is an immeasurable, indescribable force which shamens call intent, and absolutely everything that exists in the entire cosmos is attached to intent by a connecting link.

We don't need more to be thankful for, we just need to be more thankful.

As long as a man feels that he is the most important thing in the world he cannot really appreciate the world around him.

You are like you are, because you tell yourself that you are that way.

There are trivial truths and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

The Church is both organism and organization - Woven together in a beautifully messy dance that stumbles across the stage of a fallen world.

Sorrow is sorrow.

You don't talk quite like a girl who has had no advantages.

How sleep the brave who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest!

I usually travel with a posse. I roll deep. I travel like a rapper, but without the artillery. We don't carry guns, we carry cookies.

Freedom from something is not freedom.

I went to watch Pavarotti once. He doesn't like it when you join in.

I've only played two sort-of slackers, in Spaced and in Shaun Of The Dead. They're different people, but they have the same kind of everyman quality, particularly as a twentysomething.

My mother wouldn't even let me read DC Comics.