Youth need less critics and more models.

The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it.

If ingratitude be numbered among the serious sins, then gratitude takes its place among the noblest of virtues.

Men take care not to make women weep, for God counts their tears.

I acknowledge that I do not understand the processes of creation, but I accept the fact of it.

There is no more beautiful sight in all this world than to see a family praying together. There is real meaning behind the oft-quoted ‘The family that prays together stays together.

When faith replaces doubt, when selfless service eliminates selfish striving, the power of God brings to pass His purposes.

Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.

Wonderful, glorious things are in store for you if you will only believe, obey, and endure.

If you want to give light to others you have to glow yourself.

There are feet to steady, hands to grasp, minds to encourage, hearts to inspire, and souls to save

We seek love in relationships, peace in security, and joy in material things...but these feelings are divine and not dependent on any outer circumstances.

Growing up in an old-fashioned Bengali Hindu family and going to a convent school run by stern Irish nuns, I was brought up to revere rules. Without rules, there was only anarchy.

I finished the recordings I had started with Eleven. Matt Cameron joined for the rest of those sessions.

This is a f***ing mess," I said tactfully.

Anybody who knows me knows my vote can't be bought.

He will be the last to discover the disgrace of his house.

You want to start with the objective of everything should feel exactly the same.

I wouldn't warm to [Chuck Berry] even if I was cremated next to him.

It is much easier not to struggle, to give up and take the path of the living dead. But if we want to live, we must struggle.

I was an opening act for 10 years.