God's gift to his sorrowing creatures is a joy worthy of their destiny.

Without my morning coffee I'm just like a dried up piece of roast goat.

The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.

I worked hard. Anyone who works as hard as I did can achieve the same results.

Ceaseless work, analysis, reflection, writing much, endless self-correction, that is my secret.

It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.

It is the special province of music to move the heart.

I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.

Old concept: Love is blind. Marriage is an eye opener. New concept: Love is not blind - it simply enables one to see things others fail to see.

Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence.

Music's only purpose should be for the glory of God and the recreation of the human spirit.

I've been producing documentaries on global warming for 20 years and have seen the early warnings of extreme weather events come true.

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.

Most people doing the decathlon these days are quite boring, so people don't relate to them.

I'd like to do something to help the worst afflicted, but I can't. It's not possible to save everybody. Even heroes have their all-too-human limits.

Success is like a mountain that keeps growing ahead of you as you hike it... Err in the direction of kindness.

I read a book twice as fast as anybody else. First, I read the beginning, and then I read the ending, and then I start in the middle and read toward whatever end I like best.

Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

The avarice of the old: it's absurd to increase one's luggage as one nears the journey's end.

What is Parliament for if it is not to be a means to make ministers accountable for the services for which they are responsible.

Ill news are swallow-winged, but what is good walks on crutches.