I consider what I do soul music, it's music that is concerned with the soul.

If I'm wrong about God then I wasted my life. If you're wrong about God then you wasted your eternity.

Success isn't what you've done compared to others. Success is what you've done compared to what you were made to do.

People will hurt you. But don't use that as an excuse for your poor choices, use it as motivation to make the right ones.

I’m not a Christian because I’m strong and have it all together. I’m a Christian because I’m weak and admit I need a Savior.

If you live for people’s acceptance you will die from their rejection.

Better to have a small role in God's story than to cast yourself as the lead in your own fiction.

My faith is not identified by my title. My faith is identified by how I live. Wearing the uniform is not the same as playing the game.

Instead of complaining that the rose bush is full of thorns, be grateful the thorn bush has roses. Perspective.

They ask me how Im doing. I say better than I deserve

If you aim for only wealth, beauty, fame, & power, you aim too low. Humility, gentleness, gratitude, & service is aiming high.

Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.

You may be James the American, or Mary the British, or anything else, but before all that, you are a human.

We cannot escape our origins, however hard we try, those origins which contain the key -could we but find it- to all we later become

I've never taken a photograph of someone and created a persona, I've just discovered what was already there.

There is nothing more attractive than a nice smile

I'm not interested in being a wife. I'm interested in being an empress.

Christianity was from the beginning, essentially and fundamentally, life's nausea and disgust with life, merely concealed behind, masked by, dressed up as, faith in "another" or "better" life.

There is beauty in everything, even in silence and darkness.

As long as countries wave chequebooks over our heads, we can never be equal.

Happiness is a natural state of being.