A wise man hears one word and understands two.

We can only keep what we have by being willing to freely give it away; a paraphrase of Jesus Christ.

Best smiles come after the toughest time.

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

If God is for us, who can be against us?

If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

Why not learn to enjoy the little things-there are so many of them.

Remember the past, plan for the future, but live for today, because yesterday is gone and tomorrow may never come.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

God helps those who help themselves.

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.

Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds.

Good ball players make good citizens.

If your corn has a herbicide-tolerant gene, it means you can pray your herbicides and kill the weeds; you won't kill your corn.

This is what I always tell my filmmakers-you have to do tons of research, because you don't know where the inspiration is going come from.

To make it hard, to make it difficult almost impossible for people to cast a vote is not in keeping with the democratic process.

I put real pressure on myself and I demand the best out of myself.

Two things make the women unforgettable, their tears and their perfume

The biggest thing I did was that I used to go to the library. I fed my mind every day.

The one thing about the music business is that there is no rulebook. It's not like the NFL or something where there's four downs to get ten yards or baseball where it's three strikes and you're out.