“Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.”

They talk like angels but they live like men.

Music to me is a voice, my voice, it’s my way of expressing what colours can I bring in, what emotions, what feel. What ideas can I bring out from these instruments that would make this song come alive.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.

The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.

The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.

He is rich enough who does not want bread.

It is our part to seek, His to grant what we ask; ours to make a beginning, His to bring it to completion; ours to offer what we can, His to finish what we cannot.

No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure.

Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.

Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.

The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by telling against ourselves.

Make knowledge of the Scripture your love. Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.

The scars of others should teach us caution.

It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.

Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?

Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.

When I touch that flower, I am not merely touching that flower. I am touching infinity. That little flower existed long before there were human beings on this earth. It will continue to exist for thousands, yes, millions of years to come.

I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.

The first word Jesus used in His earthly ministry was repent. Repent means to change the way you’ve been conditioned to think, and I believe that is the only way we are going to see the impact of the original concepts and idea of God.

We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.

A world I dream where black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the Earth And every man is free.

Our insatiable drive to rummage deep beneath the surface of the earth is a willful expansion of our dysfunctional civilization into Nature.

You came to earth to answer a question God knew would be asked. You are the solution to a problem in your generation.