"I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born."

"I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows."

"The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion."

"You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming."

"Every singer eventually gets around to a Christmas disc."

"When purpose is clear, every obstacle transforms into a stepping stone. Remember this in moments of decisive trial — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Wisdom principle 81 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 95."

"It is a profound truth that to lead with integrity is to walk the narrow path where words and actions are one — an essential principle for the reflective life."