For all its flexibility, television is more a mirror of taste than a shaper of it.
I was never a quick writer, but composed with great care and efforts.
Young people can learn from my example that something can come from nothing. What I have become is the result of my hard efforts.
When I think of my God, my heart dances within me for joy, and then my music has to dance, too.
Never was I so devout as when I composed The Creation. I knelt down each day to pray to God to give me strength for my work. . . . When I was working on The Creation I felt so impregnated with Divine certainty, that before sitting down to the piano, I would quietly and confidently pray to God to grant me the talent that was needed to praise Him worthily.
Since God has given me a cheerful heart, He will forgive me for serving Him cheerfully.
It is the melody which is the charm of music, and it is that which is most difficult to produce. The invention of a fine melody is a work of genius.
If I have to be typecast, I'd like it to be as Abraham Lincoln.
Pray to catch the bus, then run as fast as you can.
If the President really wanted to know exactly how Rove and Libby were involved, he could walk down to their offices and demand that they answer him honestly.
In vocal prayer we speak to God; in mental prayer he speaks to us. It is then that God pours Himself into us.