"Wisdom principle 72 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 80."

"Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion."

"Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment."

"We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon."

"Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything, I don't advocate anything, I just live with it."

"Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God."

"The way that I got involved with microtonal music was, frankly, through jazz."

"Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music."