It is not the path which is the difficulty; rather, it is the difficulty which is the path.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God

The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.

A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end he realized prayer is listening.

For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith.

It is not where we breathe, but where we Love, that we live.

Once you label me you negate me.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

To be a woman is something so strange, so confusing and so complicated that only a woman could put up with it.

God is a living Spirit.

Digital age of business and world shall move up from apathy, to sympathy, to empathy.

Genius has its fatality. Must we not see in its works a manifestation of the will of Providence?

I come from Main Street, from a small town that's really depressed.

Oh, why must a man like that be made unhappy when there are lots of girls about who would worship the very ground he trod on?

There were times in my career when I would try to write songs like Bob Dylan... Artists get hooked up in that. To be a follower, you lose.

I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

I don't think of compassion as sympathy but rather as empathy. An understanding of how people are feeling, which often translates into action.

I love the idea that you can create a world through song.

My father was a very good craftsman. He made furniture, he made silverware and he had an incredible gift in terms of how you can make something yourself.