In music I do not look for logic. I am quite intuitive on the whole and know no theories. I never like a work if I cannot intuitively grasp its inner unity (architecture).

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

God is clever but not dishonest.

Try not to become a man of success but rather a man of value.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

We pay attention to what we are told to attend to, or what we're looking for, or what we already know...what we see is amazingly limited.

Life isn't simple. Literature shouldn't be either.

God's plan will never look easy when you are sitting in hell. KEEP MOVING!

Increasingly we know that we're going to have multiple medical conditions, and the person who's got the greatest incentive to manage those conditions is the patient him or herself.

I often think about the class differences involved in "jobs" vs. "careers."

It's all about portion control. Grilled fish, a small amount of wild rice and vegetables is a good meal.

Realism is punishing. Probabilistic skepticism is worse.

The key to ongoing effectiveness [in evangelism] is a perpetual freshness in your growing knowledge of Him.

We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.

The care of rivers is not a question of rivers but of the human heart.