Faith is the courage to face reality with hope.

Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Problems are guidelines, not stop signs!

The secret of success is to find a need and fill it, to find a hurt and heal it, to find somebody with a problem and offer to help solve it.

Faith is reacting positively to a negative situation.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

When faced with a mountain, I WILL NOT QUIT! I will keep on striving until I climb over, find a pass through, tunnel underneath, or simply stay and turn the mountain into a gold mine with God's help!

The good news is that the bad news can be turned into good news when you change your attitude.

The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.

Personally, my taste is towards development of a character, as well as the resolution of a story plot. I like to find both, if I can.

Morality comes from humanism and is stolen by religion for its own purposes.

These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.

Why are you afraid of death? Where you are, death is not. Where death is, you are not. What is it that you fear.

O that it might remain eternally green, The beautiful time of youthful love.

Art is the last thing I'm worried about when I'm writing a song. As far as I'm concerned, art is just short for 'Arthur.'

If you dont educate your kids... I will.

It's triumphant for someone to wake up to life. I feel a tremendous sense of liberation. You want to be able to use both your intuitive side and your go-get-'em side with no blame.

Emotions are like waves. Watch them disappear in the distance on the vast calm ocean.

Performing was the natural thing originally and the rest of it [records and so on] is just like offshoots of that. That's how I see it anyway.