I am equally excited about the possibilities that music making holds for all people and it's ability to heal what seems to me a chronic imbalance in modern life.

Music is an expression of sound that reflects the beauty of life.

This is not one of your fictions where people bleed ink.

Prayer is thinking deeply about something in the presence of God.

The eternal wave of hate never stops.

Real comedy is not when you laugh at an idiot, it's when the idiot laughs at you.

Don't be limited by the expectations of others. You can always be better and do more.

Everybody is influenced by someone.

I have no nerves, no emotion, no pressure.

Animals that not only move by their own free will and share feelings with people but also possess sight and hearing qualify as deserving of names.

America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.

When you've cooked the marrow of the sun and moon, The pearl is so bright you don't worry about poverty.

If you can not arrive in daylight, then stand off well clear, and wait until dawn. After all, that's one of the things God made boats for- to wait in.