The second half of the '60s really was a kind of learning period, in terms of writing, for me.

Prayer puts you in touch with the infinite and prepares your mind for the finite.

Peter Daniel

Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.

G. K. Chesterton

The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman; one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.

Joseph Campbell

In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries no man can ignore all of them.

Aldo Leopold

So when I got to be about 13 or 14, I started listening - even though my parents music was way cool - to contemporary hard rock at that time, which was Aerosmith, Cheap Trick, Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Ted Nugent and all that, and that's just where I came from.

Slash

A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong.

Henrik Ibsen

If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.

Francois Fenelon

One of the reasons I'm an actor is because I was no physical specimen as a child. I wasn't athletic and didn't have any prowess in that regard. Growing up in Kentucky, most little boys were trying to get into sports, and it was very competitive, so that was not to be. But I did want to do something.

Michael Shannon

Any act often repeated soon forms a habit and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.

Tryon Edwards

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.

Ralph Waldo Emerson