In California, I guess you belong to the state; you don't even belong to your parents. It's an old Spanish law. It doesn't require your parents to swear out a complaint; anybody can.

The people who really rule the world are those who know how to pray.

God is more concerned with our character than with our achievements. Achievements have importance only in the realm of time. Character is eternal. It determines what we will be through eternity.

If you don’t get excited about the gospel, you’ve never really grasped what it’s telling you.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Faith is taking God seriously.

My office is at Yankee stadium. Yes, dreams do come true.

I like duos with percussionists. I like the songs that percussionists sing.

I think everyone is ticklish. You just gotta find the right spots.

Every chemical reaction has a transition state.

We started filming in 1993 which was only four years after the fall of communism. The difference in Budapest over the last five years has been remarkable.

Adoption is the most intentional process on Earth.

Who dispenses reputation? Who makes us respect and revere persons, works, laws, the great? Who but this faculty of imagination? All the riches of the earth are inadequate without its approval.

People want progress, but they don't want change.

When first you enter Wisdom's sea, beware-A wave of indecision floods you there.

Fear is a friend who's misunderstood

I tried surfing once in Brazil, but I'm kind of clumsy.

A lot of my music is slow and subtle. The subtly is what I enjoy about making music.

It is our peculiar punishment that we know things change and we want this to be otherwise.

The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.