There is no greater reward than working from your heart and making a difference in the world.

The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.

The guitar is your first wings. It's assigned and designed to unfold your vision and imagination.

There's never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.

Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smiling.

One day there will be no borders, no boundaries, no flags and no countries and the only passport will be the heart

Happiness is not a destination or an experience. It's a decision.

Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.

Everything is a battlefield. If you fight with anger, you are part of the problem. If you fight with joy, you're part of the solution.

Music rearranges your molecular structure.

My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.

Forgive me, " he said in a hard voice. "My heart is breaking over here. I'm doing the best I can.

Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable

Necessity knows no rules.

It was our third game in five days. It seemed to have an impact on us.

Beauty scatters the seeds of hope in us.

When all the stars were falling, they fell from above, and I thought of hate, and I thought of hate, and then I thought of love.

When we get ashes we are not publicly proclaiming our greatness, but God’s. We are not saying, 'look at how great I am,' but 'ask me about how great my God is!'

Acting is wonderful therapy for people. Instead of suffering for yourself, someone will do it for you.

Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us.