There are so many people in the world with so many different perspectives. But ultimately, at the heart of it, they're people.

My records don't go platinum or gold. I think they go cedar.

If we can move together as a species, I think that there is a possibility that we can make the world a better place.

I believe in the power of song. Under the spell of the right song, passion is within reach, love is close by, and you are not alone!

I make music to bring the dead to life for a couple minutes and then let it go.

I spent more time at the library than anyone my age when I was a kid.

Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses.

The first syndicating I tried was when two partners and I created a production company in 1952. We wanted to syndicate famous Bible stories and sell them for $25 a show.

If they know you're a nibbler, they're going to wait and look for that. Hitters have to be more aggressive if you're more aggressive.

Whenever you become empowered, you will be tested.

Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master

Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.

When we pray for the Spirit, we are not praying for an answer; we are praying for God to enter us, to fill us with his presence, his thoughts, and his words.

I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.

I kind of always took it for granted the fact that my parents were Olympic medalists.

Villains, vipers, damn'd without redemption; Dogs, easily won to fawn on any man; Snakes in my heart-blood warm'd, that sing my heart; Three Judases, each one thrice worse than Judas.