If your argument is based on a lie, you shouldn't make it.

God may allow us at times to hit rock bottom, to show us He's the rock-at the bottom.

Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light.

I know God is working so I smile!

If you want to have order in the commonwealth, you first have to have order in the individual soul.

I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.

My guitars are my umbilical cord. They're directly wired into my head.

The same sensations that you get in heavy metal are in horror movies. Heavy metal sounds evil and horror movies are evil, ha ha!

In order to achieve anything you must be brave enough to fail.

I came all this way for a reason. Today is the day of salvation. Trust Jesus to save you. Then be sincere as God knows a pretender.

God speaks with authority on every subject including marriage and His advice trumps Oprah's every time.

Only by acceptance of the past will you alter its meaning.

For me the saddest thing was that these animals smelled the brokenness in him – the human defect – and kept away.

It is amazing to me that so little is still known about the Trail of Tears or the lives of the Cherokees themselves.

Create happiness for others.

I feel like I'm truly and genuinely proud and unafraid. I'm not scared of who I am.

To project your idea, you have to use new technology. It's not like the '70s or the '80s; you have an image that you project globally.

NATO has been a thread throughout my life.

As a producer, I'm an objective observer, helping a band form their ideas into a cohesive album. It's a step back from the intimacy of creation.

Most of the humor comes from how outrageous the situations and circumstances are.

I expect an energy bill to increase and diversify supply and stabilize energy prices - not drive up energy costs in one part of the country to subsidize energy in another region.