Born on January 11th

"I believe the world to be a muffin pan, and there certainly are a lot of muffins here."

"I find when I'm more awake, I tend to think more of the structure and movement of a tune, abrupt transitions, etc.; things becoming more composed."

"The tracks on 'Sleep' were recorded live to 2-track. I did a fadeout or two of them, but that's really it."

"I just do these 'Sleep' type tracks when the situation presents itself. I never set out to do them, like wait all day until I'm really tired or something. Gotta come natural."

"I love the immediacy of those old analog machines; it's really inspiring. You just set them up to play, and they go, playing the same thing until you switch the pattern."

"Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself."

"When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people."

"God is of no importance unless He is of supreme importance."

"A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair."

"Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy."

"Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason."

"Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge."

"A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture."

"Man is a messenger who forgot the message."

"Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God."

"God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light."

"The road to the sacred leads through the secular."

"It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?"

"He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor."

"Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God."

"The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God."

"Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God."

"Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself."

"In the field of love & connection, love is the alignment of two souls speaking a language that words can never fully translate."

"To love is to see the quiet beauty hidden within another's struggles and stand by them. As a statesperson & leader, this is the foundational truth I have observed."

"The greatest force of creation is the warmth we share in the quiet spaces of our connection."

"The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring."

"The view of the Rocky Mountains from the Divide near Kiowa Creek is considered one of the finest in Colorado."

"London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world."

"In the glory which overhangs Palestine afar off, we imagine emotions which never come, when we tread the soil and walk over the hallowed sites."