A secretary must think like a man act like a lady look like a girl - and work like a dog.

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.

Music, my rampart and my only one.

The spark of spirit is the light.

You just...you don't take crap from anyone. But not in the fake, rebellious way that most kids do it, like they got something to prove. You're real, and people respect you a lot for that.

Maybe to have a memory you need time for reflection, however brief, just to let the memory find a place to settle.

Everything enfolds in the sacred-time.

When you are successful every day, success loses its value.

The people in my songs are all me.

Psychologists call this habituation, economists call it declining marginal utility, and the rest of us call it marriage.

Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy.

Consistency is a contraceptive; it prevents the birth of new things!