There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say--unless you insist on saying it.

We can only keep what we have by being willing to freely give it away; a paraphrase of Jesus Christ.

Best smiles come after the toughest time.

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

If God is for us, who can be against us?

If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

Why not learn to enjoy the little things-there are so many of them.

Remember the past, plan for the future, but live for today, because yesterday is gone and tomorrow may never come.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

God helps those who help themselves.

Any good person who is motivated to attain awareness of the whole truth should follow the Universal Way to calm his mind and harmonize it with all aspects of life.

Patience is moral elasticity.

The key is to cut out the middleman and empower both doctor and patient with information about what things cost.

[Reading Swing Time] made me a feel a little bit like when I used to read David [Foster] Wallace. Like, "I can't play that game. I wish I could, but I can't do it."

A whistle in the dark is still a whistle.

I didn't spend a lot of time on national security the American people will be glad to know.

I am an artisan. I only became an artist when people watch what I do. That is when it becomes art.

Its very variety, subtlety, and utterly irrational, idiomatic complexity makes it possible to say things in English which simply cannot be said in any other language.

Obviously the fans are very important to me, in fact they mean everything to me and they are the people I try to please when I play.

Faith engenders courage; and also requires it.