The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.

The moral virtues then are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature indeed prepares in us the ground for their reception but their complete formation is the product of habit.

Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.

I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.

I write the vocals last because I wanted to invent the music first and push the music to the level that I had to compete against it.

Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.

My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.

I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

I would bend over backward to be back on Grey's. Any day I'll choose lying in bed with Katherine Heigl looking over me over getting thrown against walls by supernatural persons at 5 in the morning.