We no longer have the luxury of spending our energy on anything that does not lead us and our families to Christ.

If you're serious about sanctification, you can expect to experience heart-wrenching moments that try your faith, your endurance, and your patience.

True leaders understand that leadership is not about them but about those they serve. It is not about exalting themselves but about lifting others up.

Life, like classical music, is full of difficult passages that are conquered as much through endurance and determination as through any particular skill.

The healing power of charity, bestowed by our Father and made possible by the Atonement of Jesus Christ, can make it virtually impossible for us even to feel emotions common to the natural man.

Deny yourself nothing in life.

Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.

It's part of the celebrity process but my life has never been as interesting or as wild as what's been printed about me.

It is through Christianity that Judaism has really conquered the world. Christianity is the masterpiece of Judaism.

One of the great autoharpists and folksingers of our times.

Why do you have to retire at 65? Why can't you start at 70? You know, like wine. Why can't music be that way? My new band, we're playing stuff that's never been done before.

The talent of turning men into ridicule, and exposing to laughter those one converses with, is the qualification of little ungenerous tempers.

Living in an inner state of vulnerability is a powerful practice that opens our hearts, causing us to live in a state of gratitude for our life and life itself.

My whole mantra is, "Go big or go home." I don't want to just play a guy who dresses up. I want to play the person who threw down.

I got married at a very young age, and of course, for all the wrong reasons, and ended up divorced and lost everything. It was a very difficult time in my life.