I am fond of depicting the lives of young folks for one thing, and if you have parts for girls or young men, you must absolutely have young people to fill them - that is generally acknowledged now.

There is a place you can touch a woman that will drive her crazy. Her heart.

You know when you're young you think you will always be. As you become more fragile, you reflect and you realize how much comfort can come from the past. Hymns can carry you into the future.

Well, do a good day's work and act like somebody.

Nothing is going to be handed to you -- you have to make things happen.

I believe in the impossible because no one else does.

Who is going to believe a con artist? Everyone, if she is good.

Before you echo 'Amen' in your home or place of worship, think and remember...a child is listening.

A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning, you have to warm it up.

Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!

I just became one with my browser software.

We weren't born to create excuses, we were born to create excellence.

I suppose you'll not let me rest until I admit that I like your company?""You're getting to know me well...""Very well, I'll admit. You're slightly more than tolerable.

...true authority is not based on control - it's based on truth...

'Dear God,' she prayed, 'let me be something every minute of every hour of my life.'

The gospel is not something partial or piecemeal: it takes in the whole life, the whole of history, the whole world. It tells us about creation and the final judgment and everything in between.

The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.

Where the past is venerated the clean and those who clean things up should be kept out. Piety is never happy without a little dust, dirt, and rubbish.

Rossini would have been a great composer if his teacher had spanked him enough on his backside.

Laughter is the best medicine for a long and happy life. He who laughs lasts!

The painful warrior famous for fight, After a thousand victories, once foil'd, Is from the books of honor razed quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd