But Portugal has a peaceful feel about it. I sit on the terrace overlooking the vineyard there and I feel cut off from the world. You need that sort of thing.

The more I read my Bible the more I veered away from the Jehovah's Witnesses.

I've got two places I like to be. Portugal is one.

What other people think of me is becoming less and less important; what they think of Jesus because of me is critical.

I have a group of people, about 40, in a local church in Surrey in England, who pray for me regularly.

The more we depend on God the more dependable we find He is.

Someone recommended that I read the Bible, and it was then I discovered that I knew nothing about it.

When you use music to worship you are not attempting to entertain.

The nice thing about having relatives' kids around is that they go home.

I'm very grateful because my fans are very loyal.

There is no better news, than the fact that Jesus can actually turn a life upside down and save it.

You have to lift a person up before you can really put them in their place.

Joy is a practice, not an involuntary state.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.

I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.

Digital wisdom is made of recycled electrons that are meaningful until you pull the plug.

When I first went to America in 1928, there were spittoons everywhere. I remember avoiding spit as it flew past me in Times Square. Very unattractive.

The other world is hidden in this world. The Buddha is asleep in the Zorba. It has to be awakened. And nobody can awaken you except life itself.

I'm not sure I should reveal the sources of my clothes.

I used to be, like, "Sleep when I die."