Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation.

The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.

Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.

There is nothing government can give you that it hasn't taken from you in the first place.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.

A nation that forgets its past has no future.

A servant who serves excellently from his whole heart with due courage and humility is never a servant, but a master of his work!

Respect and love your readers. Write for the reader.

It’s easy to tune out your critics, but difficult to turn off your conscience.

We breathe the light, we breathe the music, we breathe the moment as it passes through us.

Over the last 10 years, there have been so many incredible albums created in bedrooms by people who never would've gotten an album deal.

I would rather a thousand times be a free soul in jail than to be a sycophant and coward in the streets.

When I was 16 or 17, I remember kissing one of my first girlfriends, Kim Anderson, under a stairwell at Disneyland. I'll never forget that feeling.

The feeling we experience while we look at a picture is not to be distinguished from the picture or from ourselves. the feeling, picture, and ourselves are united in one mystery.

Beating John Landy was my defining race.

God wants every local church to be the first place people think to go when they've really messed up...not the last.