You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.

In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.

I stop wanting what I am looking for, looking for it.

Night is a world lit by itself.

The shadows: some hide, others reveal.

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.

I would go to heaven, but I would take my hell; I would not go alone.

I know what I have given you, I do not know what you have received.

Situated in some nebulous distance I do what I do so that the universal balance of which I am a part may remain a balance.

A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors.

Question is not whom I am going to love, but question is whom I am going not to love.

God uses the problem in the life of every man for his good

Credit is a matter so subtle in its essence, that, as it may be obtained almost without reason, so, without reason, may it be made to melt away.

Genius is the ability to hold one's vision steady until it becomes reality

Being sexy doesn't mean you shouldn't be safe.

Who knows how many artists fail because the light that shines through them is defracted in a thousand directions and not concentrated in a single beam?

I wasn't allowed to listen to a lot of music growing up. It wasn't until I started to make my gospel record when I was around 14 or 15 that I started to be exposed to more outside influences.

In 10,000 years you will not regret anything you didn’t have or do in this life.

Too many historical writers are the votaries of cults, which, by definition are dedicated to whitewashing warts and hanging halos.

I enjoy painting and can copy almost anything.