I am terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music will be put on records forever.

Of all the arts I think Music has the most mighty, universal, and immediate effect.

The theatre is not the place for the musician. When the curtain is up the music interrupts the actor, and when it is down the music interrupts the audience.

Tax reform has been used as a crutch, as a smokescreen and as candy coating for the hard choices that have to be made.

Knowing that you want to die makes you less scared.

When God chooses you to deliver a message, to have a purpose, no one and nothing can reverse the course of His plan.

Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.

A people of scholars, if they are physically degenerate, weak-willed and cowardly pacifists, will not storm the heavens, indeed, they will not be able to safeguard their existence on this earth.

Poverty is easy to bear if it is only temporary, easier still if it is an entirely voluntary burden.

Step beyond right and wrong, and resist passing judgment. Who you've been and what you've experienced in the past isn't good . . . and it isn't bad. You might not know the whole story.

There's a difference between who we love, who we settle for, and who we're meant for.

Reach what you cannot

See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout.

Love rushed into my veins emptying me of myself. Now filled with the Beloved my only possession is my name.