If you are a chef, no matter how good a chef you are, it's not good cooking for yourself; the joy is in cooking for others - it's the same with music.

I know O LORD, that a man's way is not in himself. That is not in a man who walks to direct his steps." Jeremiah 10:23

The truth is, no matter what your lifestyle or occupation, nothing can really stop you when you're allowing yourself to be exactly who you want to be.

This circus that's advertised to show and furnish a little amusement for us heathens is owned by a woman, one whose pluck catches my sympathy every time.

Style is what's there when you look at someone's writing and you know that they wrote it and nobody else did.

And do not be paralyzed. It is better to move than to be unable to move, because you fear loss so much: loss of order, loss of security, loss of predictability.

The finishing stroke of all sorrow.

Don't let life affect your worship; let your worship effect life

We may never see the end results, but that is the difference between the master builder and the worker.

The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.

The things I like to find in a story are punch and poetry.