As long as there are ways we can serve, then we have a job to do.

Our prayer is not simply, ‘Dear God, please send me a better job, ’ but, ‘Dear God, enable me to see this situation differently, that this area of apparent lack might be healed inside my mind.

Welcome the hidden messages in pain.

Every thought we think is creating our future.

As I have said so many times, God doesn't play dice with the world.

I'm as vain as everybody else, but if I see a mirror I have to look at myself.

I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of jazz of another sort of jazz.

The income effects in an economy always sum to zero.

I like to watch many things, especially strange films and something recent, not just the story.

I said to myself a long time ago that I didn't want to be that hanging-on-for-too-long, aging-rock-musician guy, and that's why I sort of got away from music.

Militarism. . . is the chief bulwark of capitalism. When it is that militarism is undermined, capitalism will fail.

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.