In all religions, the quickening spirit has been symbolically represented as a bird. At the baptism, when Jesus body was in the water, the Spirit of Christ descended into it as a dove.

Music is the soul of language.

The man who realizes his ignorance has taken the first step toward knowledge.

Divine symbols which have been given to mankind from time to time speak to that forum of truth which is within our hearts, and waken our consciousness to divine ideas entirely beyond words.

Christ said, The Truth shall make you free, but Truth is not found once and forever. Truth is eternal, and the quest for Truth must also be eternal.

We venture to make the assertion that there is but one sin: IGNORANCE, and but one salvation: APPLIED KNOWLEDGE.

Hysteria, epilepsy, tuberculosis, and cancer were all found to result from the erratic propensities of a past life.

Man is an individual. The animals, plants and minerals are divided into species. They are not individualized in the same sense that man is.

Science is to be much commended for the ingenuity, the patience, and the persistency it displays in the invention of instruments wherewith to ferret out the secrets of nature.

To the medical man, astrology is invaluable in diagnosing diseases and prescribing a remedy, for it reveals the hidden cause of all ailments.

I can’t help but to wonder and write.

Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.

One day, you would see, You have dropped your attire, The dirt you are carrying on your shoulderAnd your entire self!

Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.

Let your prayer for temporal blessings be strictly limited to things absolutely necessary.

When you find yourself talking about less and less and forgetting the love that you bring, never forget there are things you can replace but others you can not.

You know, I am just a musician and I have no idea these days what good and bad is in terms of labels.

There's the generic 'be yourself', you'll learn it the hard way. You might just have to learn it that hard way... I think I probably kind of learned it the hard way.

Good or bad, the one thing I can say about my art is, if I can quote Sinatra, I did it my way.

Sometimes it's better to just be quiet, to not think of anything at all. Out of silence comes the greatest creativity.