I make the music that I make because that's what naturally comes to me..

I have suffered, like other writers, from indolence, irresolution, distaste to my work, absence of 'inspiration,' and all that: but I have also found….

Kill the ones that eat us. Eat the ones we kill.

God can only be comprehended as Love..

We live in an anaesthetized society..

with the spring a sort of inspiration is wakened in the most prosaic of us. The same spirit of change that thrills the saplings with fresh vitality s….

There is no later. This is later..

In the 1880s, people all over the world looked to America for inspiration. Its very existence was proof that it was possible to have a relatively fre….

I would think, to me, growing up in the south, growing up with all the gospel music, singing in the church and having that rhythm and blues - the blu….

Go as far as you can. Go further than you can!.

Our work is to preach the gospel and we must not be sidetracked..

Time is like the ocean, always there, always different..

Keep on doing what you're doing..

No such word as can't. No such word as babagoozle neither!.

When I'm funny is when I'm angriest..

On its own, having escaped my grasp, the spool I had loosed was unwinding..

Once you start on an idea it proliferates in itself..

Bacon improved things dramatically..

Act right all the time, because someone's always watching..

The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow..

You won't be happy anywhere until you're happy somewhere..