May we think of freedom not as the right to do as we please but as the opportunity to do what is right.

May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.

When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.

God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.

Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.

Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it.

A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.

Unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.

The proof of how real Jesus knew hell to be is that He came to earth to save us from it.

God hasn't given up on you. He can still do great things for you, in you, and through you. God is ready and waiting and able. What about you, and me?

Die Wahrheit hat keinen Erfolg.

I want to sleep in the ovenbecause I just burn in the bed.

To live is to suffer

I who still pray at morning and at eve Thrice in my life perhaps have truly prayed Thrice stirred below conscious self Have felt that perfect disenthrallment which is God.

I get all these loser preps coming up to me asking for autographs and all this crap, and I really want to tell them, 'My music is not for people like you!

I remember having meetings with Republican senators who initially had been trying to engage [Obamacare] but saw that the politics of 'no' were growing inside the Republican Party.

The getting lost and recovering - that is the meditation.

A necessary process for the artist is one which begins with a point of view, a reaction to the environment, to people, to whatever it is one is concerned with.

I think I'm the only senator who does not see a president when I look in the mirror.

I'm the only instrument that's got the words, so I've got to be able to get that across.