I wrote 'Actor' all on the computer. I didn't touch any instruments until I was in the studio. So while I had all these ornate arrangements, I didn't have any songs.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

The sunflower is mine, in a way.

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

Charity is the cement which binds Communities to God and persons to one another . . .

If God is the center of your life, no words are necessary. Your mere presence will touch hearts.

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.

We should strive to keep our hearts open to the sufferings and wretchedness of other people, and pray continually that God may grant us that spirit of compassion which is truly the spirit of God.

We should spend as much time in thanking God for his benefits as we do in asking him for them.

Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.

Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

Home is the one place in the world where you are safe from feeling put down or out, unentitled, or unwanted.

Our representation of the standard criminal might be based on the properties of those less intelligent ones who were caught.

The global economy is a doomsday machine that must be stopped and reprogrammed.

Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.

Thus, the standard library will serve as both a tool and as a teacher.

Four elements make up the climate of war: danger, exertion, uncertainty and chance.

A lucky chance is constant in nothing but inconstancy.

Lunch is like, my first real meal of the day. I cannot eat anything in the morning, my body...I can only eat about two hours after I wake up.

Everyone has a burden, everyone has some baggage they're carrying.

Life, to me personally, I believe it is a finite thing, my consciousness, and I want to use it as much as possible.