"You don't have to be the best at something. You just have to be the most determined."

“Our Lord needs from us neither great deeds nor profound thoughts. Neither intelligence nor talents. He cherishes simplicity.”

“When you raise kids, you want them to grow up and be successful. If they can grow up and be like you, it's quite flattering.”

Source : Source: www.menshealth.com

“...the Church is the merciless heart of the State.”

Source : Pier Paolo Pasolini, Norman MacAfee, Luciano Martinengo (1982). “Poems”, New York : Random House

“There is a great need for a sarcasm font.”

Source : Darynda Jones (2012). “Third Grave Dead Ahead”, p.26, Macmillan

“The banjo am the instrument for me.”

“A healthy relationship is built on unwavering trust”

Source : "17 Questions with Beau Mirchoff". Interview with Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. May 27, 2012.

“Prophetic utterance, like poetic utterance, transforms experience and moves the receiver to new attitudes. The kinds of experience--the recognitions or revelations--out of which both prophecy and poetry emerge, are such as to stir the prophet or poet to speech that may exceed their own known capacities; they are "inspired," they breathe in revelation and breathe out new words; and by so doing they transfer over to the listener or reader a parallel experience, a parallel intensity, which impels that person into new attitudes and new actions.”

“I see music as an aid. It overcomes my internal editor, especially when the music evokes the character or the mood I'm trying to build.”