The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.
Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.
You get to a certain age, and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines; you're not going to get played on radio, and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.
I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.
While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.