Remember: Always walk in the light. And if you feel like you're not walking in it, go find it. Love the light.

Strumming my pain with his fingers, singing my life with his words, killing me softly with his song.

Getting married is easy. Staying married is more difficult. Staying happily married for a lifetime is among the fine arts.

There's a river somewhere that flows through the lives of everyone.

That's a wonderful thing, because one of the primary qualities of a good performance is honesty.

I didn't know how well my first album had done; it was enough to get me to do the second album, which was a continuation of the music I'd worked on and perfected.

Music is an art form that doesn't need to be explained. It needs to be performed; it needs to be felt; it needs to be listened to; it needs to progress.

So see every opportunity as golden, and keep your eyes on the prize - yours, not anybody else's.

Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the piano as his canvas.

My hope is that out of all the anger and seeming hostility that we hear in some of today's music will come some sort of coalition that will become politically involved.

As musicians, and as people who sell material for people to hear and absorb, it's important that we use that voice wisely.

I'm always telling my students, don't - don't worry so much third person, first person. It doesn't make that much difference.

I don't think Jesus was an exclusivist. He said, and we believe, that He is the unique representation of God in the world. But that doesn't mean this is the only way God can work.

Obama cool, but he ain't sending me no free checks

The soul's order is re-established in God through the law.

For the Earth is only an atom in the universe of worlds.

... I went through a very lethargic period ... I was just sort of getting through every night and every day.

A grateful heart is not one that is very selective and choosy about what to be grateful for.

Everything in nature is a puzzle until it finds its solution in man, who solves it in some way with God, and so completes the circle of creation.

Do we soon forget the things we cannot see?

The system that people work in and the interaction with people may account for 90 or 95 percent of performance.