Just give a drum roll, announce my name & I come out & sing. I have a contract that says I'm a singer. So I sing.

I think if you have a passion for what you do then there are no limitations on how long or how much you can accomplish.

I have an awful lot to learn. My dream is to get better and better as I get older.

I've taken stuff from people, too. You know though, if you steal from one person, you're just a thief. But if you steal from everyone, that's research.

If you follow your passion, you'll never work a day in your life.

Someday, when I'm awfully low, and the world is cold, I will feel a glow just thinking of you, and the way you look tonight.

To work is to feel alive.

"Benedetto" means the "blessed one" and I feel that I have truly been blessed.

When the uncreative tell the creative what to do, it stops being art.

My goal as a creative person is to express truth and beauty in whatever I do

I can't ask for more out of life, and the more I learn, the less I know.

Spiritual growth is the only real growth

That is happiness: to be dissolved into something completely great.

Maintain a good balance. A personal life adds dimensions to your professional life and vice versa. It helps nurture creativity through a deeper understanding of yourself.

What do I tell the pilots to do?

Ronald Reagan is clearly to television what Franklin Roosevelt was to radio.

Cicero calls gratitude the mother of virtues the most capital of all duties, and uses the words grateful and good as synonymous terms, inseparably united in the same character.

Composing music is what makes me happy.

Justice and beauty are central to God's new world and should be central to our work. Together they frame the good news of Jesus.

I know you loved her, but it's okay to let it go now. You know that, don't you? You've got to be able to let it go.

They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.