We need not want what we are the middle of.

To survive, our minds must taste redwood, and agate, octopi, bat, and in the bat's mouth, insect. It's hard to think like a planet, but we've got to try.

Gossip: a weed watered by wayward words.

You can't run a government from one single person. What instead matters is that leadership be about gathering around extraordinary individuals and getting the best out of them.

I can't see myself singing the same song twice in a row. That's terrible.

If it's not tested, it's broken.

One-half of life is luck; the other half is discipline - and that's the important half, for without discipline you wouldn't know what to do with luck.

The marvel of heaven and earth, of time and eternity, is the atoning death of Jesus Christ. This is the mystery that brings more glory to God than all creation.

Jazz is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.

Real prayer is union with God.

When you wish #‎ good for others, good things come back to you.

Everything that I have done that the media sees as an obstacle, I have over come it.