Walking in the dark, seeing lovers do their thing. That's the time, I feel like making love to you.

Remember: Always walk in the light. And if you feel like you're not walking in it, go find it. Love the light.

Strumming my pain with his fingers, singing my life with his words, killing me softly with his song.

Getting married is easy. Staying married is more difficult. Staying happily married for a lifetime is among the fine arts.

There's a river somewhere that flows through the lives of everyone.

That's a wonderful thing, because one of the primary qualities of a good performance is honesty.

I didn't know how well my first album had done; it was enough to get me to do the second album, which was a continuation of the music I'd worked on and perfected.

Music is an art form that doesn't need to be explained. It needs to be performed; it needs to be felt; it needs to be listened to; it needs to progress.

So see every opportunity as golden, and keep your eyes on the prize - yours, not anybody else's.

Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the piano as his canvas.

My hope is that out of all the anger and seeming hostility that we hear in some of today's music will come some sort of coalition that will become politically involved.

People who lack the clarity, courage, or determination to follow their own dreams will often find ways to discourage yours. Live your truth and don't EVER stop!

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.

By the way, I'm not just one man with a chalkboard. I'm one man with four chalkboards.

I used to think that each phase of life was the end. But now that my view on life is more or less fixed, I believe that change is a great thing. In fact, it's the only real absolute in the world.

The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not its growth and development.

I am the best rock drummer on the planet.

There is no greater disaster in the spiritual life than to be immersed in unreality, for life is maintained and nourished in us by our vital relation with realities outside and above us.

Remedying the deficiencies of seminary curricula is a difficult question because of all kinds of vested political interests long at work in the building of any curriculum.

I don't think fear necessarily is a core human emotion, but I do think fear of death is something that is at the core of every person's existence.