It's the same at a rock-and-roll concert. You have an opening number with a strong entrance; then you go through a lot of the old standards, building up to your hit song at the end.

If you're going to get into big time religion, these are the games you have to play. You go into it as a business and you work it as a business.

Time does not create changes, wisdom does. Your wisdom decides the quality of your decisions.

There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women's bodies by men. The woman's body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.

People fail forward to success.

Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for its own sake but as he was given to saying it straightened out one's thoughts.

There was a time, in the not so distant past, that if you didn't have what you needed on Thanksgiving, you were pretty much going to have to wait until Friday. Not anymore!

What a blessed truth to understand that, in the middle of all of our difficulties and calamities, we have a refuge.

The image of God, then, involves gender identity and complementarity. God created gender in duality as male and female.

Atheism is the result of ignorance and pride; of strong sense and feeble reasons; of good eating and ill-living. It is the plague of society, the corrupter of manners, and the underminer of property.

Our task today is to bring India to the threshold of the twenty-first century, free of burden of poverty, legacy of our colonial past, and capable of meeting the rising aspirations of our people.

I'm not trying to be cosmic, it's just that everything's on a roll and that's how it is. The songs within the album discuss that very condition.