The first time I heard Bird play, it hit me right between the eyes.

One positive thought produces millions of positive vibrations.

Invest yourself in everything you do. There's fun in being serious.

The real risk is not changing. I have to feel that I'm after something. If I make money, fine. But I'd rather be striving. It's the striving, man, it's that I want.

God breathes through us so completely...So gently we hardly feel it...yet it is our everything.

Starting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once.

I'd like to point out to people the divine in a musical language that transcends words. I want to speak to their souls.

My music is the spiritual expression of what I am: my faith, my knowledge, my being.

I think music is an instrument. It can create the initial thought patterns that can change the thinking of people.

Damn the rules, it's the feeling that counts.

You can play a shoestring if you're sincere.

When I was a medical student in the 1950s, we practically never spoke about Alzheimer's disease. And why is that so? And that is because people didn't live long enough to have Alzheimer's disease.

Whatever affliction comes in our life, our Lord goes into the valley with us, leading us by the hand, even carrying us when it is necessary.

I always get this feeling on my last day of work that I'm never going to work again.

Once comics become your life, you have to make decisions on what you spend your time on.

It was a story called ‘The Hero’ which I sold to Galaxy magazine in 1970, for $94.

Unfortunately I've been to jail a couple times. Anytime I come in it's difficult to make music, write songs.

Happiness is found when no one is looking

Not to speak for Jason [Benjamin], but he's a straight married dude with two kids.

Let us serve the world soulfully. The pay we will receive for our service will be in the currency of gratitude, God's gratitude, God the only gratitude.

Achievement is by all accounts to a great extent a matter of clinging after others have given up.