Love is the greatest power and it is, if natural, the highest 'invisible food' from the infinite for soul and body.
There's a sameness and comfort level you get living in a country like America.
I'm not saying that you shouldn't go to college or you shouldn't finish your degree, but sometimes people have a very clear vision about what they want to do, and they just want to get on with it.
Where we really effect change, in terms of creating a passionate work force, is by listening to kids early.
I love underdogs, people who have achieved extraordinary things against the odds.
I'm all about nonfiction. I rarely read fiction. I like to read about things that really happened, facts, real life situations. That's what inspires me.
Stories have inspired me all my life. I like reading about what other people have done and it inspires me to share my own stories, and encourage people to make their own life stories.
There is a degree of wretchedness and want among the lower class of people which is not anywhere so common as among the Spanish and Portuguese settlements.
I am sincerely grateful to everyone who did not let me pass my auditions. If I had gotten in too easily, I wouldn't have worked as hard. Thanks to them, I've gained more strength and I've learned what it means to never give up.
One time, I think it was my third lesson third or fourth lesson. Kim Parker and he picked me up at the bus station. And she just said, "Phil [Wood] has been up all night. He's heartbroken. Bud Johnson died last night. " And Bud Johnson, like Zoot [Sims] and Al [Cohn] had been mentors to him.
We give our intent to love and meekness, by the working of mercy and grace we are made all fair and clean.