In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

How can we love the Lord our God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength if we must separate our minds from our faith? Such a separation violates the very meaning of faith.

I say three prayers every night to make sure that God knows I thank him so much.

Scriptures and creeds may come to seem incredible, but faith will still go dancing on.

Was Sen. Barack Obama a Muslim? Did he ever practice Islam? The presidential candidate officially rejects the claims, but the issue of Obama's personal faith has re-emerged amid conflicting accounts of his enrollment as a Muslim during elementary school in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation.