I really miss being able to blend in with people.

I am proud to have been born in Iowa. Through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy, it was a place of adventure and daily discoveries – the wonder of the growing crops, the excitements of the harvest, the journeys to the woods for nuts and hunting, the joys of snowy winters, the comfort of the family fireside, of good food and tender care.

I had a rat-tail when I was younger. I had this nice Bobby Brown fade, with a rat-tail that was long enough to wrap around my face. I used to chew on the end and bite it.

I don’t keep people around me that aren’t family. You don’t get to stay. Unless you’re eating at the table with us, you’re not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.

Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

A good song never gets old.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music – these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.

People are generally proud of their food. A willingness to eat and drink with people without fear and prejudice… they open up to you in ways that somebody visiting who is driven by a story may not get.

My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.

When you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you; without the sun there is no life at all and suddenly you get in touch with the sun in a different way.

Memory… is the diary that we all carry about with us.

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.

We talk about this concept of openness and transparency as the high-level ideal that we’re moving towards at Facebook. The way that we get there is by empowering people to share and connect. The combination of those two things leads the world to become more open.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

It’s in my blood to be around people while I was training.

If you’ve heard this story before, don’t stop me, because I’d like to hear it again.

Things ain’t what they used to be and never were.

The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it – basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.

My friends and I had fun together, but I was more reserved, not at all the life of the party. I would just be the quiet one in the room.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

Letters are something from you. It’s a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail.

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

I think ‚The Color Purple‘ is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe.

Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

Going home helps the content.

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

So there’s no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn’t necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn’t necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame.

In fact, you couldn’t give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.

When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection, love is born.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

I miss people. I miss going anywhere and meeting a random person and saying ‚Hi‘ and having a conversation about life. I love people.

Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

Since the departure of good old-fashioned entertainers the re-emergence of somebody who wants to be an entertainer has unfortunately become a synonym for camp. I don’t think I’m camper than any other person who felt at home on stage, and felt more at home on stage than he did offstage.

You don’t even really need a place. But you feel like you’re doing something. That is what coffee is. And that is one of the geniuses of the new coffee culture.

Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.

Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

FaceTime helps me a lot. I feel like I’m at home even though I’m not.

I’m saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

I’m just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.

Live-tweeting your bikini wax is not vulnerability. Nor is posting a blow-by-blow of your divorce . That’s an attempt to hot-wire connection. But you can’t cheat real connection. It’s built up slowly. It’s about trust and time.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

My goal in music is to create nostalgic moments.