I can control most things, but I don't seem to be able to control death.

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.

I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change...I'm changing the things I cannot accept.

Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.

You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.

We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia.

When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.

Walls turned sideways are bridges.

Justice is indivisible. You can't decide who gets civil rights and who doesn't.

We must always attempt to lift as we climb

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

No amount of money can recover lost time

There is no beauty like a face with a joyful smile.

Love hath no pride.

If you want to be witty work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.

Everyone is possessed with an irresistible desire to know his relationship to the Infinite.

If you can explain what is happening in a church, apart from the sovereign act of God, it is not revival.

And tell him to paint me a sign, with-no suicides permitted here, and no smloing in the parlor; might as well kill both birds at once.

There is nothing assured to mortals.

As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of making music is to get it heard by as many people as possible.

There is great difference between trust and belief. Trust is personal, Belief is social.