When you feel good is when you're not afraid to feel the worst.
You listen to people that love you and you listen to people that you trust. Most of all, you listen to yourself.
We will all at some time in our lives, fall. Life is so very fragile, we are all vulnerable and we will all at some point in our lives. . . fall. We will all fall. We must carry this in our hearts, that what we have is special, that it can be taken from us and that when it is taken from us, we will be tested. We will be tested to our very souls. We will all be tested. It is these times, it is this pain, that allows us to look inside ourselves.
Every man at some point in his life is gonna lose a battle. He's gonna fight and he's gonna lose. But what makes him a man is that in the midst of that battle, he does not lose himself.
Are you suggesting that we reopen the Opera with a murder as an added attraction?
Right here, right now, God has placed you to do what you do best. Go all the way.
I am not in the habit of taking baritones to supper.
The beast that bears you fastest to perfection is suffering.
Why pray for the Kingdom of God to come unless you have in your heart a desire and a willingness to aid in its establishment? Praying for His will to be done and then not trying to live it, gives you a negative answer at once. You would not grant something to a child who showed that attitude towards a request he is making of you. If we pray for the success of some cause or enterprise, manifestly we are in sympathy with it. It is the height of disloyalty to pray for God's will to be done, and then fail to conform our lives to that will.
Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life.
When I was about 12, I wanted a CD player for Christmas, but instead my parents gave me a really crappy electric guitar.