I am so happy that I didn’t go to school and I didn’t have anyone to tell me how to position my fingers on the piano correctly.

Focused will is incredible. If you have a dream and you don’t give up no matter what obstacles come up, then life’s problems will fall away and you will get what you want. It happens. It works.

The greatest things in life - truth, creativity, imagination, love, kindness, compassion -are already inside us, and they're all free.

Sometimes we get caught up in our troubles and our problems and we let life slip away, but life is precious, all of life, and one must try to take in as much of it as possible.

Of all the forces that are exerted on us over our lifetime, at least for me, love has been the most powerful of all.

There’s a very deep connection among human beings. All we have to do is open our minds to it.

I tend to avoid writing music about initial reactions to situations, like frustration or anger. I’d rather wait till I go through the problem, and write about the learning that took place.

A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.

No matter what happens in life, never lose sight of who you are.

My father taught me that one of the most important abilities in life is to be able to take the pain and persevere, and for years this lesson had served me well.

The most important battle is one to conquer yourself.

Adopt the positive in everything you do, for there will always be positivity there to find, if that is what you seek.

The man's emotions flowed back and forth like waves of the sea.

It's not the sea that drowns you-it's the puddle.

If you hang onto something long enough, it will come back in style.. Like ME.

I ask for a stonger and more devoted voice... a voice for good, a voice for the gospel, a voice for God.

You don't give people dignity. You affirm it.

The key to good decision making is not knowledge... It's whether our work fulfills us.

ANARCHY, or the government of each man by himself or as the English say, self -government.

You would think the fury of aerial bombardment would rouse God to relent; the infinite spaces Are still silent. He looks on shock-pried faces. History, even, does not know what is meant.

The purse strings tie us to our kind.