Pleasure can impact your happiness for better or worse, but it is not happiness.

You cannot fully wrap your mind around God, so better to fully wrap God around your mind.

When God's goodness touches our lives, it's called "grace.

Optimism is not fantasy. It hopes for the best reality without departing from it.

Words. Ever since chisel was taken to slate, it has been accepted that words can and do change the world.

There's a great deal of power in pretending.

I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once and cannot add up the sum.

Songs that don't depend on composition depend instead on performance - so the fire has to be there in the playing.

Do not allow the accents in the brass to produce space between the notes.

My life takes me all over the world, and I know how hard that can be on a relationship.

I was discouraged about life, discouraged about people being blind, but I don't think I had a day that I ever questioned creativity. There has never been a day like that.

Ah well, I suppose it has come to this... Such is life.

I think what we tried to do lyrically, vocally and musically was to capture a sound.

Yet the whole preamble of the second authorization act for the Marshall Plan showed the direction Congress was ready to take about breaking down barriers within Europe.