In our depths, I think we all feel very small in relation to the greater universe and God.

It's part of what I do at my piano - the hymns. And then I write.

Mother was a great force in her area of evangelism.

I see some some of these other guys, and they're wearing the hats and the jackets and saying the words and they're relating and they're picking. But there's something missing.

If I stopped writing and being at my piano, I wouldn't know how to live. It's your best friend.

I'd always been on the giving end of music and creating.

I'm not Lisa, my name is Julie.

But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.

Full many a gem of purest ray sereneThe dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear:Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.

There's no denying it now. I'm in the world. And, too, the world is in me.

My parents did great and provided well, and gave all their kids personal, moral, ethical values, not a belief that we were entitled to something.

It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.

I learned I'm not a science writer. I'm not very good at describing how something is happening. I try to describe "So What?"

My brother died of cancer two years ago (1998), renal cell carcinoma. He was my only real brother and I didn't know what to do. I'd never been so desperate in my life.

The challenge of co-operation in today's age of quarrel can be achieved by adjusting every situation according to the higher principle of loving God.

Make careful choice of the books which you read: let the holy Scriptures ever have the preeminence.

If you get 10,000 guys to put their ideal woman into a computer, it still comes out looking like Angelina Jolie.