I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

There are 2 rules in life: Number 1- Never quit Number2- Never forget rule number 1.

Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It's not an occupation or profession, it's a compulsion.

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.

The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen.

If you have a great band with a mediocre drummer, you have a mediocre band. If you have a mediocre band with a great drummer, you have a great band!

Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.

You have to stop listening in categories. The music is either good or it's bad.

Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.

There are two kinds of worries - those you can do something about and those you can't. Don't spend any time on the latter.

Laziness builds walls and fences that keep the mind under control.

Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.

I'm no Lance Armstrong, but I do use a bike to get from place to place in Manhattan, a little bit of Brooklyn.

Follow-up is personal. It must be done by someONE; not by someTHING. For it to be effective we must set the pace. We can't permanently sell something we don't make time to get into our lives.

My objective is to build a bridge to a person, to establish a dialogue.

To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain.

Despair exists only when there is hope.

Why is everyone telling me to do it? I already did it.

I think it is a very natural tendency for the nations to increase their influence in the international space, as they pursue their international relations with different countries.

When I see I am nothing, that is wisdom. When I see I am everything, that is love. My life is a movement between these two.