The problems we have now in communities and societies are going to be resolved only when we are brought together by a common sense that each of us is a visionary. Each of us must come to the realization that we can function and live at the level of vision rather than following some great leader's vision. Instead of looking for a great leader, we are in an era where each of us needs to find the great leader in ourselves.
Kind of the bottom line for me, I don't think people come to the church where I preach to hear my view on politics.
My words are like a ship, and the sea is their meaning. Come to me and I will take you to the depths of spirit.
I'll come in with a string of riffs and direct the musical ideas. But you still need a band and their input to make the ideas come alive. You can't underestimate band chemistry.
It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass.
We come to this book because something is missing in our souls. This book will take you through the steps that you stumbled over in all your other attempts. And it will bring more than you asked for.
Oh, come on, Arthur. " "I don't want to hear it, Andy. " "Jesus Christ" "He doesn't want to hear it, either.
No one person or material thing could ever come close to the feeling I get when the music is right.
What did Jesus come to do? God saves.
I have people who come up to me and say, 'Oh, seeing your work in my little home town in the middle of nowhere on the internet inspired me to move to London, or New York and pursue a creative career. ' It makes me quite emotional.
When I was a kid, some of the guys would try to get me to hate white people for what they've been doing to Negroes, and for a while I tried real hard. But every time I got to hating them, some white guy would come along and mess the whole thing up.
I have come to believe that anger and grudges are burning embers in the heart.
Trying to solve the worlds problems by making things 5% more efficient is like trying to play the violin with gardening gloves. Not much good will come out of it. We must invent new ways!
Love is like a promise. Once you break it. . it doesn't come back unless you really fight for it.
Death: the anaesthetic from which none come round.
I've written this to keep from crying. But I am crying, only the tears won't come.
Color is one of the great things in the world that makes life worth living to me and as I have come to think of painting it is my efforts to create an equivalent with paint color for the world, life as I see it.
Come then, put away your sword in its sheath, and let us two go up into my bed so that, lying together in the bed of love, we may then have faith and trust in each other.
I wish I had a little more joy of cooking - because mostly I have anxiety of cooking. I'm so proud when things come out well.
I'll be satisfied with what I've got at the end of the season,. . . If I can play every day, the numbers will come.
