"Happiness is no laughing matter."

“There's no point that an album should sound like a watered down version of another album.”

“I just love to shop. If I could, I would shop every single day in every single store and spend all of my money which, you know, I do anyway.”

“I sing God's music because it makes me feel free. It gives me hope. With the blues, when you finish, you still have the blues.”

“I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.”

“He's written some great songs. I thought that "Blues Man" was a perfect song for me to do as a tribute.”

“Every mother can easily imagine losing a child. Motherhood is always half loss anyway. The three-year-old is lost at five, the five-year-old at nine. We consort with ghosts, even as we sit and eat with, scold and kiss, their current corporeal forms. We speak to people who have vanished and, when they answer us, they do the same. Naturally, the information in these speeches is garbled in the translation.”

“May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.”

Source : Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Elliott Coues (1987). “The expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike”, Dover Pubns

“What I believe is not what I say I believe; what I believe is what I do.”

Source : Donald Miller (2007). “Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God”, p.67, Thomas Nelson Inc