Moments of prayer intruded on by sloth cannot be made up. We may get experience, but we cannot get back the rich freshness and strength which were wrapped up in those moments.

Defeat in doing right is nevertheless victory.

No man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes.

On earth we have nothing to do with success or results but only with being true to God and for God. Defeat in doing right is nevertheless victory.

Never does a man know the force that is in him till some mighty affection or grief has humanized the soul.

Life like war is a series of mistakes and he is best who wins the most splendid victories by the retrieval of mistakes.

Only so far as a man believes strongly mightily can he act cheerfully or do anything worth doing.

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

Being in a relationship is like being in A.A. My friends ask me, 'How's it going with that girl?' 'One day at a time, man.'

Women are not just there to be admired, they are there to be enjoyed.

Does it say 'Colonel' anywhere on my uniform?

Punk is an attitude, not a genre, age group, or time period. What's interesting is trying to define the blues and punk in different ways. They are very close cousins.

The act of writing is either something the writer dreads or actually likes, and I actually like it. Even re-writing's fun. You're getting somewhere, whether it seems to move or not.

Don't let winning make you soft. Don't let losing make you quit. Don't let your teammates down in any situation.

Infant baptism when practiced can be no more than an expression of the faith and hope of the parents that their child will ultimately be saved.

I love clothes that when you put them on, you feel like you. I don't care whether anyone else likes them.

Confidence is everything. If you start second guessing yourself, you're bound to run into more bad outings