“You do have to be fairly selfish when you have a gift. You cannot afford to let too many outside things get in the way.”

“I guess that singing is probably a very selfish thing. I guess it doesn't matter what you do. It's selfish in a way 'cause there's satisfaction involved and so. As a singer, you sometimes have to justify your reason for existence in a sort of a way because: what really are you doing for people, they say?”

“You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.”

“If you want to catch beasts you don't see every day,
You have to go places quite out of the way,
You have to go places no others can get to.
You have to get cold and you have too get wet, too.”

“Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself,— that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.”

“Selfish people have never understood and travelled the way of the universe in the past. Therefore when we realise the principles and the way of the universe, the universe gives us the responsibility to spread them to the world. Do not think that you cannot help another person. What you learn today, you can teach another the next day. The world is full of people who have lost the way of the universe and suffer illness. Let us do our best to explain the correct principles of the universe to them.”

“You have many years to live—do things you will be proud to remember when you're old.”

“If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.”

“What you have is all His Gift to you. What you do with what you have is your Gift to Him …”

“If you cannot get things as much as you desire than be contented with what you have.”