Brian McKnight

There’s only one thing that everyone in this world has in common: whether you want to love somebody and you want to be loved in return.

I am at my core a singer/songwriter a la James Taylor or a la Billy Joel. It’s not that I don’t want to work with people, but I do just love doing my own thing.

I didn’t think my career would last this long, and it’s still going.

I am just like all the jerks and idiots you know. I am just a guy that watches sports all day.

I’m creating music – it doesn’t matter if anyone else likes it.

Stevie didn’t use the technology to drive the song. He used it to enhance. I use the tools to further my work, I don’t use my work to further the tools.

The essence of Buddhism is, if you can, to help others. If not, then at least refrain from hurting others.

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Only a spiritual being has awareness.

I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.

I have a habit of running from the things I’ve prayed for and then asking God to send them again.

Did we believe a final Reckoning and Judgment; or did we think enough of what we do believe, we would allow more Love in Religion than we do; since Religion it self is nothing else but Love to God and Man. He that lives in Love lives in God, says the Beloved Disciple: And to be sure a Man can live no where better. It is most reasonable Men should value that Benefit, which is most durable. Now Tongues shall cease, and Prophecy fail, and Faith shall be consummated in Sight, and Hope in Enjoyment; but Love remains.

Inspiring others towards happiness brings you happiness.

Only when you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard and strong.

You’ve got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body’s sermon on how to behave.

Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.

If you are a Christian, you are in danger. If you decided to abandon your faith and become an atheist, you also are to be liquidated according to their concept. You are in danger if you decide to become a Muslim. It is not going to save you anyway because they believe traditional Islam is hostile to their goals.

Do not worship me, I am not God. I’m only a man. I worship Jesus Christ.

The practice of Zen is forgetting the self in the act of uniting with something.

The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.

God is a loving god.