You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: 'Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?' We must always consider the person.

I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful.

God is not looking for repayment, but repentance. What heals a broken relationship is sincere love and contrition.

One of the standards on which your happiness is based, now and in your future, is moral purity.