It’s a sad fact that some people are only remembered once they’re dead.

Fear is like a little germ in your head, allow it to grow and it takes over your all.

Life summed up with a marketing slogan: Limited Edition!

Focke's razor: Never attribute to plot holes that which is adequately explained by miracles.

When I’m passionate about something I strive for excellence, judging whether or not I achieved it is up to the audience.

Storytellers are master manipulators transforming non-reality (grounded in reality) into vicarious experience.

Relatable escapism can only be achieved using facets of the real world.

Money changes people. This process is more commonly known as trading.

Trial. (Fail.) (Succeed.) Repeat.

When you aim for the stars even if you fail you’ll be a falling star, and that’s wish-fulfilling material.

Progress is hard, achievements are easy, and giving up is easier still.

When one looks truly at the good side of everyone, others come to love him very naturally, and he does not need even a speck of flattery.

But I'm tone deaf - window-shattering tone deaf. I can't sing for the life of me. I can't sing or dance, so no remake of 'Grease' for me!

May the father of all mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths, and make us in all our several vocations useful here, and in His own due time and way everlastingly happy.

Did you ever walk through a room that's packed with people, and feel so lonely you can hardly take the next step?

Songwriting is like ... being possessed. You try to go to sleep but the song won't let you.

That makes climate change a bigger public health problem than AIDS, than malaria, than pandemic flu.

God lives, but not as we. His creatures live but to die. But God is life. Therefore, goodness is not an attribute. Goodness is God.

We laugh to survive. Then, with joy we thrive.

To be a fully functioning moral agent, one cannot passively accept moral principles handed down by fiat. Moral principles require moral reasoning.

To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.