Good taste has everything to do with being cultured and being refined, and if art has to do with anything, it has to do with being human.

God is a wild man...should you encounter him...hang on for dear life-or let go for dear life is a better way to say it.

After you're dead [...] it's not gonna matter if you have a few scars. It will matter if you didn't live.

...I think there's only one [thing] that anybody teaches, and this is character. And I think that whether you are teaching history, math, or biology, or music, what you are really doing is, you are helping to shape the character of that person who is your student... Music is such a wonderful teaching tool, because while you are developing musical skills, that student can learn a lot about discipline [and] cooperation.

Be praised for all Your tenderness by these works of Your hands, suns that rise and rains that fall to bless and bring to life Your land. Look down upon this winter wheat and be glad that You have made blue for the sky and the color green that fills Your fields with praise.

Save me from trendy religion that makes cheap clichés out of timeless truths.

And step by step You'll lead me / And I will follow You all of my days.