God blesses man, not for having found but for having sought.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

To love beauty is to see light.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

Maybe being married is talking to oneself with one's other self listening.

Moksha (Liberation) is to become free from gathering & dispersing of circumstances.

Anoint me with "Fresh Oil" O God! Mold me and make me...totally for Your use! You are the potter, I am the clay. Amen

People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old.

There is the old boys' club, but there are ­people who are "conviction lobbyists" coming from the heart.

I must say the more interesting songs to me were the black ones because they were more simple.

God of hope, I look to you with an open heart and yearning spirit. During this Advent season, I will keep alert and awake, listening for your word and keeping to your precepts. My hope is in you.

Clinton's fakery was so deft and deeply ingrained that it was impossible to tell where it ended and the real Bill Clinton began. This constituted a kind of political genius.

If the artist's will is not strong he will see all kinds of unessential things.

Perhaps that's what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?