Life is so full of meaning and of purpose, so full of beauty - beneath its covering - that you will find that earth but cloaks your heaven. Courage, then to claim it: that is all!

No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in today. No peace lies in the future which is not hidden in this present little instant.

The gloom of the world is but a shadow; behind it, yet within our reach, is joy. Take joy.

The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet within our reach is joy. There is radiance and glory in the darkness could we but see - and to see we have only to look.

Everything we call a trial, a sorrow, or a duty, believe me, that angel's hand is there.

No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in it today.

Courage you have, and the knowledge that we are all pilgrims together, wending through unknown country, home.

I greet you. Not quite as the world sends greetings, but with profound esteem and with the prayer that for you now and forever, the day breaks, and the shadows flee away.

He walks through the house of his past, hoping he'll find the right door, hoping he'll find the key.

A recent survey of Top Five Fears places public speaking alongside “identity theft” and “mass shootings.” In the 1980s, it completed with “nuclear destruction.” In the 1970s, “shark attack.

I wish I could play bass like Larry Graham or Bootsy Collins. My God, I'd give up just about everything else for that.

Every character and person in life needs a voice and every once in a while I get to inhabit the voice of the misunderstood.

I try to make sure that I make music that can stand the test of time.

I'd let my golden chances pass me by.

All I could think of when I got a look at the place from the outside was what fun it would be to stand out there and watch it burn down.

Vision looks inward and becomes duty.

It's Web, and then everything else. It's social media first, and everything else.