God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.

Death is only a horizon, and a horizon is only the limit of your sight. Open your eyes to see more clearly.

Our deeds will not cause God to love us more

Dark came early and stayed full of lights and the shouts of children.

I'm independent and strong, but sometimes...just sometimes, it's nice to be taken case of. It's nice to be made to feel like a lady

I'm afraid the workings of J.J. Abrams' mind falls outside the predictive capacity of any coherent theory.

The question is simply,'Who is your master?'Once that's settled, you ask whether any word have been spoken. If it has, you have your orders.

Democracy: a festival of mediocrity.

When you sit and write a song, sit and write the best song you can write, just try and write it and be connected.

The hardest times to choose love become the very times that you can most grow spiritually.

I still write music, and I still have sessions, and I still record, but I have no plans.

May the hair on your toes never fall out!