My vocal style is called bel canto, which is an old Italian vocal style going back hundreds of years.

Without my morning coffee I'm just like a dried up piece of roast goat.

The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.

I worked hard. Anyone who works as hard as I did can achieve the same results.

Ceaseless work, analysis, reflection, writing much, endless self-correction, that is my secret.

It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.

It is the special province of music to move the heart.

I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.

Old concept: Love is blind. Marriage is an eye opener. New concept: Love is not blind - it simply enables one to see things others fail to see.

Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence.

Music's only purpose should be for the glory of God and the recreation of the human spirit.

A wide-angle view of sails sparkling white against a cobalt sky as light dances, silver on the water. Like art, it soothes the edge, allowing you to see something simple from a different perspective.

She was my friend and I loved her and relied on her, even though there were days when her moodiness and fragility frightened me, because they reminded me of my own tenuous grasp on life.

A writer walks in nature to wonder.

If proof were the standard of truth, fallacies would constitute the ultimate reality.

I was a talking lover, which most women hate.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

A refrigerator is the opposite of a drug addict, because a refrigerator starts in a box and then moves to a house.

Women are needed in the military because there aren't enough soldiers, and we're seeing more women serve.

That's the great thing about plankton. It pretty much keeps to itself.

What is terrible when you seek the truth, is that you find it. You find it, and then you are no longer free to follow the biases of your personal circle, or to accept fashionable clichés.