I don't know any sad songs. Except for the funny ones.

The job of taste was to thin the insane torrent of human creativity down to manageable levels. But the job of appetite was never to be happy with taste.

Sooner or later, all men will do and know all things.

The thing about music was that you never knew the shape of anyone’s desire.

Creation is much in need of ordering.

Chance was just an order that you hadn't yet perceived.

It's knowing one's ... limitations ... and then ignoring them.

My work is to reach people with ideas, hopes, dreams, encouragement, insight, and revelation. That's what an actor wants to do.

Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it, the achievement of it must inevitably leave him a prey to boredom.

People who want to manipulate you will fear your joy, because it's not easily controlled.

I may be a Jewish scientist, but I would be tickled silly if one day I were reincarnated as a Baptist preacher.

Pour out the wine without restraint or stay, Pour not by cups, but by the bellyful, Pour out to all that wull.

A habit of devout fellowship with God is the spring of all our life, and the strength of it.

To me, the real 'state of the union' is found in how Americans react to current events.

Courage doesn't mean being free from fear; it means learning to work through fear and speak even when we are afraid.

It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.