The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other men!

Souls are like athletes, that need opponents worthy of them, if they are to be tried and extended and pushed to the full use of their powers, and rewarded according to their capacity.

His vision was religious and clean, and therefore his paintings were without decoration or superfluous comment, since a religious man respects the power of God's creation to bear witness for itself.

One came out of the church with a kind of comfortable and satisfied feeling that something had been done that needed to be done, and that was all I knew about it.

How deluded we sometimes are by the clear notions we get out of books.

My mother was informing me, by mail, that she was about to die, and would never see me again.

Life is like a race, whenever I found a finish line, I lose, bcoz I'm last.. :(

A person’s voice can have such a powerful experience on the listener, very different from looking at the words on the page.

Now that a full flood of music has swept over our country, let Nikhil practise his scales, while we rouse the land with our cracked voices[.]

Be careful what you wish for

I wanted to follow the path of music and feel that power, and I couldn't turn back.

I believe in God. I believe in a higher power. And I do believe that God works in mysterious ways.

A young wine is like a horse, it is extremely vibrant. It needs taming. It has lots of life, the edges need bevelling and we need to reduce the tannins.

The way I figure it, if you can't tell I'm high by looking at me, I win.

Our very genesis was not really a beginning after all, but indeed the product of a personality-Father Mills.

I have a toy poodle, Shadow. She's a little whippersnapper! And I love little monkeys.