All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws.

One positive thought produces millions of positive vibrations.

Invest yourself in everything you do. There's fun in being serious.

The real risk is not changing. I have to feel that I'm after something. If I make money, fine. But I'd rather be striving. It's the striving, man, it's that I want.

God breathes through us so completely...So gently we hardly feel it...yet it is our everything.

Starting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once.

I'd like to point out to people the divine in a musical language that transcends words. I want to speak to their souls.

My music is the spiritual expression of what I am: my faith, my knowledge, my being.

I think music is an instrument. It can create the initial thought patterns that can change the thinking of people.

Damn the rules, it's the feeling that counts.

You can play a shoestring if you're sincere.

Make sure your sphere of influence is a piece of Heaven

The glory of God is upon you.

Slowly, Dana walked around the long table and stared at them. The moment stretched. They sent her encouraging smiles. “Okay, ” she announced, “I’m not gonna lie. This is freaking me out a little.

During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.

Your hair is so white now it can talk back to the police.

I tried to keep it secret, but the story got into the newspapers. It was more difficult for my family, who couldn't understand why the media wouldn't leave me in peace.

The map had been the first form of misdirection, for what is a map but a way of emphasizing some things and making other things invisible?

The only way to do my job without optimism would be as a cynic, and that's not my nature.

Something had gone amiss with men, and the weak ones were dangerous.

Brazil does have every right to develop its own peaceful nuclear programme.