A tranquil conscience invites freedom from anguish, sorrow, guilt, shame, and self-condemnation. It provides a foundation for happiness. It is a condition of immense worth.

Be wise and don't let good things crowd out those that are essential.

Recognize the good in others, not their stains.

I witness that as you gain experience and success in being guided by the Spirit, your confidence in the impressions you feel can become more certain than your dependence on what you see or hear.

In quiet moments when you think about it, you recognize what is critically important in life and what isn't. Be wise and don't let good things crowd out those that are essential.

Pure love is an incomparable, potent power for good. Righteous love is the foundation of a successful marriage.

There are few things in life that bring as much joy as the joy that comes from assisting another improve his or her life.

Repentance is not punishment, it is the hope filled path to a more glorious future.

Stay on the Lord's side, and you will win every time.

If you want to talk to God, pray. If you want him to talk to you, read your scriptures.

A memorized scripture becomes an enduring friend that does not weaken with the passage of time.

And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time’s malleability.

I've always been pretty unfaithful - I've never stuck to one kind of genre or music.

With television you are producing hours and hours of music and for film it is a shorter experience for both the audience and for you as a composer.

He who fails to plan, plans to fail.

Nothing is more honest than a dream.

Fender Custom Shop made this nickel plated Stratbelieve it or not, it sounds incredible.

It's an intuitive exercise to do a Shakespeare play and to go through a Shakespeare play.

The girls go to the gang in order to get protection from victimization that's occurring in their lives. And also it's a place to be, because they're often rejected from and rejecting their families.

I want to see 10 female rappers getting regular rotation. It can't be all about a man's opinion.

Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression.