Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.

The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.

The guitar is your first wings. It's assigned and designed to unfold your vision and imagination.

There's never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.

Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smiling.

One day there will be no borders, no boundaries, no flags and no countries and the only passport will be the heart

Happiness is not a destination or an experience. It's a decision.

Everything is a battlefield. If you fight with anger, you are part of the problem. If you fight with joy, you're part of the solution.

Music rearranges your molecular structure.

My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.

Live up to your convictions. You walk in grace or you walk in fear. You can't have it both ways.

Nature will teach us many lessons if we take the time to visit her classroom.

The Holy Spirit can take God’s word of truthand minister it to our deepest needs.

I think we have to act like stars because it is expected of us. So we drive our big cars and live in our smart houses.

Praying without fervency is like hunting with a dead dog.

God created infinity, and man, unable to understand infinity, had to invent finite sets.

A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself.

I don't think it's you that changes with success - it's the people around you who change. Because of your new status, they change in relation to you.

For everyone that doesn't want to endorse Donald Trump or doesn't even want to support him, they should realize he actually has a connection to his voters.

Talent will not always find its way but commitment will.

I am your own voice echoing off the walls of God