At the Day of Judgement we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done.

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance.

All men desire peace, but very few desire those things that make for peace.

Learned arguments do not make a man holy and righteous, whereas a good life makes him dear to God.

Let all things be loved for the sake of Jesus, but Jesus for His own sake.

Wherever you go, there you are.

Let temporal things be in the use, eternal things in the desire.

The Lord bestows his blessings there, where he finds the vessels empty.

God often grants in a moment what He has long denied.

Greater is Your care for me than all the care I am able to take from myself.

It takes very little to govern good people.

Textbooks are not so much wrong as they are conventional – and an entrepreneurial idea must be contrarian.

Today I found an old friend.

I always go in very emotionally when I'm doing music. Sad or happy, I'm always into it. I have a hard time writing for other people, writing with someone else in mind.

I was drafted into the Army when I was 19 and came out at age 22. Most people that I knew didn't think they'd come home alive. I didn't think I would either, so I was happy when I did.

Money is what makes a man act funny.

I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one...

I don't agree with everything he did in his life, but we're dealing with this Howard Hughes, at this point. And also ultimately the flaw in Howard Hughes, the curse so to speak.

With the single exception of Park Lane, every north-south route in London slows traffic to the pace of a wounded gnat with pleurisy struggling with a squaddie's backpack.

If you can accept losing, you can't win.