Praying is the purest pleasure.

Aim for the stars. You will sooner reach the moon.

What you think of me is none of my business.

We are what we think.

I believe in miracles.

Love is stronger than hate.

Asking is the beginning of receiving.

We are what we are.

God is the Creator of all things.

Daily dance uplift the soul to spiritual realms.

A revived spirit, a renewed soul.

If there is no personal God, everything is permissablel, and if God exists, everthing is possible.

Every criminal has a good mind conquered by the devil

I like to think I'm generally accessible, but I give readers the benefit of the doubt of being reasonably culturally-literate.

My older brother was involved in the folk movement. We would gather every weekend in Washington Park. The folk songs were so important to my reality.

Trusting God means looking beyond what we can see to what God sees.

I wouldn't want to be ideological about it but I think of it as being the best way to approach this kind of playing. I don't think it works in other music, other kinds of playing.

Whatever comes, let it come. What stays, let it stay. What goes, let it go.

I think...that I would rather recollect a life mis-spent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt.

My body, plowed by your body, will turn into a field where one is sown and a hundred reaped.

Any umpire who claims he has never missed a play is . . . well, an umpire.