One half who graduate from college never read another book.

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.

The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people.

Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future.

A little man often cast a long shadow.

History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read it and to reflect upon it for themselves.

The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers.

There is no orthodoxy in walking. It is a land of many paths and no-paths, where every one goes his own and is right.

Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.

It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.

The choices we make determines our destiny.

We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.

Plot comes from the mind but the characters come from the heart!

Any idol, regardless of its beauty or usefulness or original purpose, is to be set aside so that Christ might reign supreme, without a single competitor.

When we feel stuck, going nowhere-even starting to slip backward-we may actually be backing up to get a running start.

The confessions can touch on every human emotion. They can be laugh-out-loud funny, for sure, they can be heart-breaking, they can be sexual or hidden acts of kindness, they can be romantic.

Most of my lyrics are little stories about my experiences or those of my friends.

We get high on all types of drugs when, all you really need is Love