You can play a shoestring if you're sincere.

One positive thought produces millions of positive vibrations.

Invest yourself in everything you do. There's fun in being serious.

The real risk is not changing. I have to feel that I'm after something. If I make money, fine. But I'd rather be striving. It's the striving, man, it's that I want.

God breathes through us so completely...So gently we hardly feel it...yet it is our everything.

Starting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once.

I'd like to point out to people the divine in a musical language that transcends words. I want to speak to their souls.

My music is the spiritual expression of what I am: my faith, my knowledge, my being.

I think music is an instrument. It can create the initial thought patterns that can change the thinking of people.

Damn the rules, it's the feeling that counts.

I believe that men are here to grow themselves into the best good that they can be - at least, this is what I want to do.

Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level.

You're trying to be tricky. What's morality?""It's the difference between what's right and what you can rationalize.""Must be a human thing.""Exactly.

I wouldnt say that I was a born performer, because I work very hard at it.

I'm second in doubles - double vodkas, double scotches.

Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death.

The beauty of personal authenticity can compensate for the lost beauty of our youth.

How do you maybe hit someone?” Michael drawled. “Okay, so I decked him. At the time he deserved it.

Racism is still America's greatest addiction. I also believe that America is the greatest sin against God.

I wanted to have a title that wasn't in English so that someone in France, for instance, could ask for 'dix-huit' or the someone in Japan could ask for 'juhachi.'

The Patriot Act, passed overwhelmingly but hastily after 9/11, allows the FBI to obtain telecommunication, financial, and credit records without a court order.