What a great advantage a man can have over women, if he only knew what cold and calculating thoughts are going through her mind.... while her eyes are brimming with tears.

Men have been trained and conditioned by women, not unlike the way Pavlov conditioned his dogs, into becoming their slaves.

The grace to read the Holy Bible is the strength of being.

Patience is not the ability to wait but how you act while you are waiting.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change!

Keep guard over your eyes and ears as the inlets of your heart, and over your lips as the outlets, lest they betray you in a moment of unwariness.

I look at some of the songs I wrote years ago and I can't believe I wrote such crap.

I didn't play in the NFL, and I didn't play defensive line. But football, at the fundamental level, is football. It's about motivating people and getting the best out of them.

The first quality of courage is the willingness to launch with no guarantees. The second quality of courage is the ability to endure when there is no success in sight.

Sincere composers believe in God.

Live simply so that others may simply live.

There are rhythms in the world waiting for words to be written to them.