Every musician I have ever heard has influenced me. I often find I emulate micro-aspects of an artist, and combine it to form something new and unique.

Everyone and everything that shows up in our life is a reflection of something that is happening inside of us.

Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want.

Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.

Guilt: punishing yourself before God doesn't.

Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.

Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.

Happy people do not demand a lot from the world because their happiness proceeds from a place deeper than the world can touch.

Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but of unlearning old limits.

The fire of purpose easily melts the icicles of obstacles.

To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny.

Ironic, isn't it, what religion does to people?""I guess it's more ironic what people do to religion.

I no longer believe there's any such thing as losing a woman. A man loses himself as women slip into the future.

Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.

Some men don't gel when it comes to work - you have different work ethics, different opinions, different points of views, different methods of filmmaking - and we didn't gel.

The government cannot do everything all at once. It can't wave a magic wand and meet everyone's demands simultaneously.

I think what bothers me so much of the time, is they take the data and theory and distort it. They must know they're distorting.

I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the other needs books to make it through the day.

I know. You know I know. I know you know I know. We know Henry knows and Henry knows we know it. We're a knowledgeable family.

I should like, if I could, to leave a humble gift -- a bit of chaste prose that had caught up some noble moods.

The aim of love is to love. No more, no less.