Memories are not in places, Papa. Memories are in your mind. They're here, too.

You will never know all there is to know. You will learn until your final days. Then you will inspire someone else. This is what an artist does.

The secret is not to make your music louder. But to make the world quieter.

Silence enhances music. What you do not play can sweeten what you do. But it is not the same with words. What you do not say can haunt you.

There is a reason you glance up when you first hear a melody, or tap your foot to the sound of a drum. All humans are musical. Why else would the Lord give you a beating heart?

One must indeed test the strings to this life, bounce the bow, wet the mouthpiece, prepare for the deeper music that follows.

Loneliness was like an ogre hovering over those activities

some things you endure for a reason

At a certain point, your life is more about your legacy to your kids than anything else.

The course of our lives can be altered when we receive the gift of knowledge.

Be a goal-setter, a go-getter, all the while, moving,  in humility and kindness.

Do you believe that evil and tragedy are always planned? You don’t think Fortune has anything to do with it?

I have to confess that I don't read much of what is written about me.

I love you, Clary wanted to say. And, I would do it again. I would always ask for you.

Lead with action and let the feelings follow.

Nature would be scarcely worth a puff of the empty wind if it were not that all Nature is but a temple, of which God is the brightness and the glory.

Women always put men first. That's how everything got so screwed up.

Emotions have taught mankind to reason.

With every breath, I plant the seeds of devotion, I am a farmer of the heart.