You come to the planet with nothing and you leave with nothing, so youd better do some good while you are here.

Everybody has a high point and a lot goes into that: timing, situation, general consciousness.

When you leave the planet, you leave music behind.

It's part of our nature. As much as I love (brother and guitarist Eddie), if you put us in a room with no one else for 15 minutes, we'd be at each other's throats.

The Beatles will never get back together and David Lee Roth will never again sing with Van Halen.

Whatever our personal differences are, there are no bigger fans of this band than the people who are in this band.

Some things are impossible.

Van Halen is a work in progress.

I look at Van Halen as social workers. What we're really doing is creating jobs for rock critics.

Theres nothing worse than having everybody thinking alike, talking alike and having the same direction in mind. It gets stale that way.

Nobody sets out to make a bad record.

There is no prayer greater than service.

You can live with me in this house I've built out of writers blocks.

As writers, the world is not about individual expression entirely because we are producing works of literature and getting them out into the world.

If only Simon were here. He could probably bore you to sleep.

What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor

The grace of God is love freely shown toward guilty sinners, contrary to their merit and indeed in defiance of their demerit.

Most men are notable for one conspicuous virtue or grace - Moses for meekness, Job for patience, John for love. But, in Jesus you find everything.

I spent my 20s working in patient care at a large university hospital, an experience that has informed all my work and has given me a lot of human observation to draw on.

Unbroken companionship helps us hear His instruction so then we can see His direction. We must not seek direction before obeying His instruction.