What I have achieved by industry and practice, anyone else with tolerable natural gift and ability can also achieve.

Without my morning coffee I'm just like a dried up piece of roast goat.

The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.

I worked hard. Anyone who works as hard as I did can achieve the same results.

Ceaseless work, analysis, reflection, writing much, endless self-correction, that is my secret.

It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.

It is the special province of music to move the heart.

I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.

Old concept: Love is blind. Marriage is an eye opener. New concept: Love is not blind - it simply enables one to see things others fail to see.

Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence.

Music's only purpose should be for the glory of God and the recreation of the human spirit.

There is a name hidden in the shadow of my soul, where I read it night and day and no other eye sees it.

Nature often lets us down when we most need her; let us turn to art.

One can't learn much and also be comfortable One can't learn much and let anybody else be comfortable

For what endless years this life will have to go on! He felt, with a kind of horror, his own strong youth and the bounding blood in his veins.

I do find a certain fascination with the unpredictable. The transitory years we wade through are what they are- what we make of them.

I think we do have our true, original stories that work. I can tell you that 'The King's Speech,' which we did, became a worldwide smash because people loved the personal story.

I can't sing and I can't dance, but I can lick any S.O.B. in the house.

if it is thus, I ask emphatically whence comes this thusness.

Divorce is very difficult, especially on the kids. Of course, I'm the result of my parents having stayed together, so you never know.

Her capacity for family affection is extraordinary. When her third husband died, her hair turned quite gold from grief.