the skin of moss / holds the footprints of / star-footed birds.

I haven't a clue how my story will end, but that's all right. When you set out on a journey and night covers the road, that's when you discover the stars.

Sometimes questions are more important than answers.

If prayers worked, Hitler would have been stopped at the border of Poland by angels with swords of fire.

Live in your roots, not in your branches.

Answers are closed rooms; and questions are open doors that invite us in.

We don't really understand something until we have forgotten it.

What you need will come back to you.

Faith takes root in the insignificant.

What one heart finds hard to believe, a hundred find easy.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning.

We drink one another's health and spoil our own.

All men that date me have to know that their name may end up in a pop song.

Only another twenty thousand or so days of this to go.

Whatever is the scariest is almost always what I end up choosing.

I woke up and all I could see was Iraqis standing all around me, looking down upon me. I knew at that moment something terrible had happened and I wasn't in the right place.

When we receive Holy Communion, we experience something extraordinary - a joy, a fragrance, a well-being that thrills the whole body and causes it to exalt.

The tires are called wets, because they're used in the wet. And these tires are called slicks, because they're very slick.

If I hear one of my songs by anybody, it's a dream come true every time for me as a songwriter, because I want to write a song, I want to write a song that the world can sing and will always sing.

If anyone ever asks you what panic is, now you can tell them: an emotional blank spot that leaves you feeling as if you've been sucking on a mouthful of pennies.