First of all, I'm no better than the next person.

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.

Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.

We all have hearts.... If you have a heart, love somebody. If you have enough heart, love everybody.

Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.

It feels better to love than to hate.

There may be a brighter star. But through my eyes the light of you is all I see.

You can't base your life on other people's expectations.

What I'm not confused about is the world needing much more love, no hate, no prejudice, no bigotry and more unity, peace and understanding. Period.

I am what I am. I love me! And I don't mean that egotistically - I love that God has allowed me to take whatever it was that I had and to make something out of it.

Pray always and seek guidance from the Creator.

Most men overestimate themselves. It’s the only way they can reproduce. It’s why we’re all here, us humans. Overestimation.

When God is in sharp focus, then life is also undistorted.

I think what I do is positive, in its own way.

The enemy will hit you in your area of strength to discourage himself.

Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth

The first part of the spiritual journey should properly be called psychological rather than spiritual because it involves peeling away the myths and illusions that have misinformed us.

I owe a lot to my teachers and mean to pay them back some day.

We've got to get the system right. That's why we've got this root-and-branch reform under way.

When I am able to be present, listening - really listening - to a viewpoint described through someone else's lens, I am here in the now and alive.