Spiritual yearning is the homesickness of the soul.

Compassion is the religion of the heart.

Quiet the mind, and the soul will speak.

When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms.

Our goal is not to crush the enemy at any price, but to make it realize that it is illegal to take up arms to overthrow a democratically elected government.

The guys I grew up with, my cinematic heroes, have always been men of few words, but of action. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach.

Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

A movement has to move. Constantly.

Whatever is committed from a bad example, is displeasing even to its author.

I wasn't allowed to listen to a lot of music growing up. It wasn't until I started to make my gospel record when I was around 14 or 15 that I started to be exposed to more outside influences.

If one imagines unlovely things for another, they are going to produce them - not in the other, but in themselves.

The perfectionist is another name for someone who is getting ready to become mad.

I want to see something I've never seen before.

I started understanding that my strength is my gentleness. A leader isn't a dictator, a leader is a servant.