Stand up for what you know is right.

If you wrote something, you deserve to get paid and recognized for your work. No one should take a bow with another man's hat.

A young songwriter shouldn't think he or she doesn't stand a chance because someone has big corporate people behind him. Never look at it like that.

God has been with me in my whole career.

I was put here to sing.

I'll sing as long as I can because I enjoy doing that. I enjoy the fans and what I do. I love the traveling and the hotels and just seeing the world over and over again.

When ours are interrupted, his are not. His plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us always (including those minutes or hours or years which seem most useless or wasted or unendurable).

Light and flow is what shifts the world’s vibration, not the stagnation and resistance that comes with opposition.

Every flower has a song in her heart, which we can never see.We only can see her external beauty.

All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.

He who cannot command himself should obey. And many can command themselves, but much is still lacking before they can obey themselves.

The gods don’t care about men, no more than kings care about peasants.

My mother believed and my father believed that if I wanted to be president of the United States, I could be, I could be Vice President!

The Word of God tells us of the day when tears shall be gone forever. Until we come to that day, we move through this world in the midst of tears.

Try and forget our cares and sickness, and contribute, as we can to the happiness of each other.

Who God possesseth In nothing is wanting; Alone God sufficeth.