Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical.
The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.
The guy who enters pro sports hasn't run scared from the 7th grade on. Until he enters the pros, it's been nothing but roses.
I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what position they'd play and so on.
My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule.
The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society.
It is hard to read a newspaper or watch a television newscast without encountering someone who has come up with a new 'solution' to society's 'problems.'
I just love westerns. One of my favourite actors is John Wayne, probably one of the most underrated actors there's ever been. He's quite an incredible actor.
When I was 12, I began listening to John Coltrane and I developed a love for jazz, which I still have more and more each year.
My songwriting is so influenced by orchestrated music, dramatic, super glam rock-y stuff. Two of my biggest influences in songwriting were Elton John and Freddie Mercury.
If you look at the market cap increase in Apple since it created the iPod versus what's happened to the music industry, you have to say Apple got the better part of that deal.
A montage is incredibly challenging. When I can, I'd like to know what the music is going to be ahead of time because that will affect the beat, the pace of the montage.
What is interesting in this is the exchange of music that occurred between New Orleans and Cuba, I mean, they had ferries that would go from one port to another.
I will keep playing as long as my body lets me, and as long as I'm wanted by my listeners. Because music is the only thing that keeps me going.
I try to give to my music the spiritual quality, very deep in the soul, which does something even if you are not realizing it or analyzing it - that's the duty of the music.
In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.
