Love is found in the things we've given up, more than in the things that we have kept.

...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.

Ain't it funny what people say? Ain't it funny what people write?

There's people been friendly But they'd never be your friends Sometimes this has bent me to the ground

There is the music that we make, and the music that makes us.

I can't see how You're leading me unless you've led me here, where I'm lost enough to let myself be led.

The longer I live, the more I have the feeling like God looks down, like when you've just bitten into a vanilla ice cream cone, you just get the feeling God's going, 'Yes! He enjoys it, and I made his taste buds and I made vanilla and he's putting it together and he's experiencing what I created him to experience.