Very strange is this quality of our human nature which decrees that unless we feel a future before us we do not live completely in the present.

Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.

Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God, in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger. Pray not for crutches but for wings.

O little town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep the silent stars go by.

I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.

Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.

The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still.

O, do not pray for easy lives.

There are dead stars that still shine because their light is trapped in time. Where do I stand in this light, which does not strictly exist?

Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.

Surely wisdom will come as we listen to learn from children, parents, partners, neighbors, Church leaders, and the Lord.

I want to know all God's thoughts.

I don't know where I would be without music. Even if I wasn't a musician, I think music is God. In a lot of ways, it's my saving grave. It's been my religion since I was a little kid.

I love pulling people into concert halls who might not otherwise go and getting their ears tuned.

In every passionate pursuit, the pursuit counts more than the object pursued.

A good preface must be the root and the square of the book at the same time.

Regarding comments attributed to me in the Los Angeles Times - allegedly made on a bus trip from Germany to Holland in 1998 - I emphatically denounce such comments as false.

Well, I'm not a crook.