The real risk is not changing. I have to feel that I'm after something. If I make money, fine. But I'd rather be striving. It's the striving, man, it's that I want.

One positive thought produces millions of positive vibrations.

Invest yourself in everything you do. There's fun in being serious.

God breathes through us so completely...So gently we hardly feel it...yet it is our everything.

Starting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once.

I'd like to point out to people the divine in a musical language that transcends words. I want to speak to their souls.

My music is the spiritual expression of what I am: my faith, my knowledge, my being.

I think music is an instrument. It can create the initial thought patterns that can change the thinking of people.

Damn the rules, it's the feeling that counts.

You can play a shoestring if you're sincere.

I believe that men are here to grow themselves into the best good that they can be - at least, this is what I want to do.

If I lie down on my bed I must be here, But if I lie down in my grave I may be elsewhere.

I closed my eyes to hug him tighter and give him that elusive feeling of unconditional love and complete safety. The feeling we seek but, in this life and in this world, perhaps never quite find.

I think my poems are slightly underrated by the word accessible.

If I have learned how to write fiction it's by working with great writers and getting them to explain their craft to me so that I can do it in English.

The ocean is like a checking account where everybody withdraws but nobody makes a deposit. This is what's happening because of overfishing.

We want to be making clear that if [Donald Trump] tries to deliver on his word, that we will be there to say no.

I remain a humanist. We are a very curious race.

The trend in the world right now is - not just in developed countries, but in developing countries including China and India - there is a movement to build more and more nuclear plants.

The man who stops advertising to save money is like the man who stops the clock to save time.

At the end of the season, I normally get some time off training and can go on vacation and enjoy myself.