A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident.

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.

The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.

The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.

It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don’t—whichever seems likelier to win an effect.

God Had A Specific Assignment For The Earth

IT continues to grow in importance to organizations, both operationally and as a competitive advantage.

I've never had a 12-year-old try to explain to me about groove.

If other people choose to believe because I do, great. I want to show people God's love through what I do and who I am. At the same time, I don't feel I need to pass out Bibles at the concert.

I seemed to be upon the verge of comprehension, without the power to comprehend as men, at time, find themselves upon the brink of rememberance, without being able, in the end, to remember.

What you do and what you say has consequence and impact. Impact is determined by the intention behind your words and the intention behind your deeds.

I like to tell people that I finally found something I'm really good at, and that's retirement.

Just the absence of loneliness. That's love enough.

When I start a song, it's the first thought. It's the first thought and the first cadence, because that's the most natural.