David Geffen

We got killed in Newsweek.

You can’t interview my brother!… We can call this thing off – right now!

You can’t do this! We have an arrangement! We have a contract!

[On school] Not only did I know that I wasn’t one of the smart kids in the class, but so did everyone else.

Everybody was recording Laura Nyro’s songs and all of a sudden she was a very successful song-writer. And beginning to become hot. She had three songs in the top ten at one time…

Happy is harder than money. Anyone who thinks money will make them happy, doesn’t have money.

Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.

One who conquers himself is greater than another who conquers a thousand times a thousand on the battlefield.

To be like Christ is to be a Christian.

You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?

It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

I lost my faith in God when I lost my daughter to Cancer, the beast. I begged, I cried, I offered my life for hers, and day by day, I watched that beautiful little Angel slip off. So, excuse me for not taking my seat next to you on Sunday in Church, I feel too cheated to worship.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

Nothing ever exists entirely alone. Everything is in relation to everything else.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single kind act is better than a thousand head-bowings in prayer.

Mind your thoughts, as they become your words. Mind your words, as they become your actions. Mind your actions, as they become you.

As a bee gathering nectar does not harm or disturb the color & fragrance of the flower; so do the wise move through the world.

The Christian’s Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

It’s not about approving or liking, but just being able to allow the world to be the way it is without resenting, hating, or judging it.

God has no religion.

I’m the fifth generation of Seventh Day Adventists and the youngest of four brothers. When I was still very small, we formed a gospel quartet.