R.A. Smith Quotes

I always mean what I say, but I don't always say what I'm thinking.

Rock n' roll is dream soup, what's your brand?

My belief is that communication is the best way to create strong relationships.

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

I didn’t write the rules. Why would I follow them?

I think photojournalism is documentary photography with a purpose.

It's a strange paradox that a man gifted with too many talents can fritter them all away without developing a single one to its full.

I tend to head for what's amusing because a lot of things aren't happy. But usually you can find a funny side to practically anything.

You can never tell you the mountain will allow and who it will not.

You can create whatever you want. You just have to know what you want and take the opportunities as they come your way. We are who we choose to be.

When I believe in something, I'm very passionate. I don't take 'no' for an answer.

I would have absolutely messed up 'The Matrix'.

When I'm in my groove there is no thinking. Everything just happens.

When faith lays hold, impossibilities must yield.

The light that shines the farthest will shine the brightest at home.

The only thing missing from your life is what you're failing to bring to it.

We Jews regard our race as superior to all humanity, and look forward, not to its ultimate union with other races, but to its triumph over them.

All money is a matter of belief.

What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.

A man filled with the love of God is not content with blessing his family alone, but ranges through the whole world, anxious to bless the whole human race.

That to me is happiness when I feel like I am loved and I have a place to love deeply. That to me is happiness.

Style is a magic wand, and turns everything to gold that it touches.

Don't cheapen Jesus's sacrifice by trying to pay him back

It’s interesting how people try to redefine God to their liking. They bring him down to their level so they can understand him, then they reject him because he is too much like them.

As resolute as I feel about my convictions, if I'm wrong, I'm man enough to say I'm wrong, because I find it a rare occasion anyway.

Two things will get you to leap out of yourselves into the promises of God today. One is purity, and the other is FAITH, which is kindled more and more BY PURITY.

Safety isn't expensive, its priceless.

To seek Divinity merely in books is to seek the living among the dead... seek God within your own soul.

I think it all comes down to relationships - how I treat my wife, how I treat my kids, how I treat the guys at the grocery store, all aspects of every day, what I'm involved in.

Paths that cross will cross again

If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.

Don't let failure go to your heart, and don't let success go to your head.

Somewhere where people aren't so mad would be nice, but I don't know if there is anywhere like that.

Your life will become better by making other lives better.

Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, than there is always beer

Your attitude determines your aptitude!

I enjoy basketball. I enjoy coaching basketball. It's the out-of-season stuff I didn't handle well.

When life closes a door, God opens a window.

I think the real free person in society is one that's disciplined. It's the one that can choose; that is the free one.

There are very few bad people. There are just a lot of people that are unlucky.

Even as a child, I knew what I didn't want. I didn't want to wear red lipstick.

The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party.

Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown.

I want to help you decide that, by the power of God, you will not be ordinary.

The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists.

The women who don't seek attention are usually the women you need to be giving your attention to.

No one expected me. Everything awaited me.

It's really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence.

At the center of the religious life is a peculiar kind of joy, the prospect of a happy ending that blossoms from necessarily painful ordeals, the promise of human difficulties embraced and overcome.

What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for beauty, and never see the dawn!