Even if work were not an economic necessity, it is a spiritual necessity.

God does not begin by asking us about our ability, but only about our availability, and if we then prove our dependability, he will increase our capability.

The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched.

If, in the end, you have not chosen Jesus Christ it will not matter what you have chosen.

The more seriously we work on our own imperfections, the less we are judgemental of the imperfections of others.

We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.

No love is ever wasted. Its worth does not lie in reciprocity.

The submission of one's will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God's altar. The many other things we 'give' are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us.

We should not assume; however, that just because something is unexplainable by us, it is unexplainable.

Trials and tribulations tend to squeeze the artificiality out of us, leaving the essence of what we really are and clarifying what we really yearn for.

You rock a sobbing child without wondering if today's world is passing you by, because you know you hold tomorrow tightly in your arms.

Friends are a weird thing. It seems like they know all about you, but then they don’t understand you at all.

I knew it was the right thing to do because I started feeling some of the toxicity inside me melt away and peace begin to fill in the crevices

I think leadership is creating a state of mind in others.

Fighters before a fight, they shouldn't get riled up.

The first nine albums there was never a Synthesiser, never any Orchestra. There was never any other player except us on the albums.

The whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be.

The guy [Donald Trump] has a lot of problems - physical, mental, emotional, cognitive. You know, he comes with a whole lot of baggage, and I think it's pretty obvious.

To put all of your eggs in one basket is silly. We did that for a long time and I don't think it's very smart.

I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then

It puts a ceiling on your progress. You're blocked by your pride. To get good, you have to throw your board around and fall.