Peace comes not because your prayer has been answered exactly as you prayed it, but because you shifted your focus and the burden of responsibility on to Him.

And, as my father used to tell me growing up, "Play it beautiful, play it beautiful." He said, "I don't care if you don't hit all of the notes. If you don't move a person's heart, it's not music."

I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other.

From within the mind we look out and envision, contemplating and interpreting each new challenge and the action we will take.

Follow pleasure and then will pleasure flee Flee pleasure and pleasure will follow thee.

God is good for everybody. The sun shines on good people and bad people, and it rains on both, too. God doesn't choose rain only for bad people.

When I was born, they put casts on my legs 'cause I had some kind of dysplasia or something. My legs were all messed up.

We still have time to negotiate, we still have time for diplomacy, because there are still a number of issues that have not been clarified, that created a lack of confidence.

No amount of training in leadership skills, courses in management methods, power titles, promotions, or associations can substitute for the right attitudes.

To me, the greatest artists are almost entirely non-verbal.

There are always three sides to every memory…yours, theirs, and the truth, which lies somewhere in between the two

It will be most pleasing to O[ur] L[ord] if you husband your strength in order to serve Him better.