The secret is not to make your music louder. But to make the world quieter.

You will never know all there is to know. You will learn until your final days. Then you will inspire someone else. This is what an artist does.

Silence enhances music. What you do not play can sweeten what you do. But it is not the same with words. What you do not say can haunt you.

There is a reason you glance up when you first hear a melody, or tap your foot to the sound of a drum. All humans are musical. Why else would the Lord give you a beating heart?

One must indeed test the strings to this life, bounce the bow, wet the mouthpiece, prepare for the deeper music that follows.

Loneliness was like an ogre hovering over those activities

Memories are not in places, Papa. Memories are in your mind. They're here, too.

some things you endure for a reason

At a certain point, your life is more about your legacy to your kids than anything else.

A dam tears at all the interconnected webs of river valley life.

Everybody values their train, but they want to zero-out other people's trains.

If children haven't been read to, they don't love books. They need to love books, for books are the basis of literature, composition, history, world events, vocabulary, and everything else.

I wouldn't have a nose job. I like my nose fine.

There'll be no smoking in the gas chamber.

The only time a message (label) can scare us is if we think there is such a thing, and that such a thing is a disgrace.

When you try to battle with John Ford, you have to give in.

Don't measure anything unless the data helps you make a better decision or change your actions. If you're not prepared to change your diet or your workouts, don't get on the scale.

The source of your mind is love and whatever you do to go to that source, is spiritual practice.

I've been singing Shakira songs in front of my bathroom mirror into my hairbrush forever. It's like a daily routine.