I think Serena Williams is the best tennis player of this generation if not the best ever. It is amazing for her to be playing as well as she is at the age of 31.

It's amazing how fast generations lose sight of other generations. One of the first things the young composers who come to work with me say is that they want to write music people will like instead of gaining their credentials by being rejected by the audience.

You have to wait for a big star to come in and generate interest on a project and now that has become me which is an amazing blessing.

Nothing is more generally known than our duties which belong to Christianity and yet how amazing is it nothing is less practiced?

I think the amazing thing about gospel music is that not only does it lift up the death and resurrection of our Lord which is consistent with the Gospel but it is uniquely communicated depending upon the generation.

The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It's a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation.

People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours.

It felt like the first thing but when I first started out I got a job adapting a book by Russell Banks called 'Rule Of The Bone.' I didn't do a very good job. I didn't really know what I was doing in general let alone how to adapt a book.

Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture as the little creep through the great break through and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it.

Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring.