Ain’t nothing too serious. Even death is a joke on the old devil, if we are living for the Lord.

(The golden goose has died, my prince turned into a frog, the Kingdom is lost, everyone has turned into stone and I am locked in the tower)

I lost a horse today.''That sounds careless. What happened?''She jumped off a cliff.''A cliff! Is that normal?

Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.

Freedom. He offered it like someone who didn't know what it meant, someone who had never had it taken away."pg 185

God takes us through the fires to refine us like gold.

Music makes your soul feel amazing while you're performing it.

I can be mean. Not dirty. But very mean.

There would be no accumulation of strength inside if the choices that you make did not require disipline and intention.

If it were not for repentance and forgiveness, I would become discouraged and discontinue my labors.

Never begrudge the money you spend on your own education.

It stared at them, and it paused for a hundred years, which transpired in a dozen heart beats.