Sometimes when a new piece of knowledge comes along you suddenly change your priorities and focus on something completely different instead.

I'm like a child trying to do everything, say everything and be everything all at once.

The whole universe is based on rhythms. Everything happens in circles, in spirals.

After you start learning all about the mechanics of piloting a riverboat, you stop seeing all the pretty sunsets and you start thinking about the weather.

A banjo will get you through times of no money, but money won't get you through times of no banjo

Time is the most important thing there is. That is the only element that you can't withdraw from the situation and still have the situation exist. Everything depends on time.

She dries her eyes and bakes her pies and leaves 'em on the window sill

Mike Compton knows more about Bill Monroe style mandolin than the Father of Bluegrass himself.

Just when you think it can't get no better, then it does.

What's the use in being different when it's being different that's the same.

The best way to express rhythm is music.

Life was complicated, I thought. Not just the living but dealing with the realities and the instinct for order that other people have, that I didn't always grasp.

Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.

No one should be twice punished for one crime.

Actually freestyle really comes from 'Planet Rock'. If you listen to all the freestyle records you'll hear that they are based on 'Planet Rock'. All the Miami Bass records are based upon Planet Rock.

Irish Catholics are more interested in the rosary beads than in the rosary.

Losing me will hurt; it will be the kind of pain that won't feel real at first, and when it does, it will take her breath away.

I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament.

Health and healing will follow fasting.

To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.

Just as the blessings of God are unutterably great, so their acquisition requires much hardship and toil undertaken with hope and faith.