One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.

The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise, they will win and the decent people will lose.

There is not enough magic in a bloodline to forge an instant, irrevocable bond.

Stuttering is painful. In Sunday school, I'd try to read my lessons, and the children behind me were falling on the floor with laughter.

If you expect someone else to guide you, you'll be lost.

Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.

In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better than ambrosia.

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.

In our resolve to build a better world... we seek to summon what Abraham Lincoln called the better angels of our nature.

Don't you try and go through life worried if someone had liked you or not. You best make sure that they are doing right by you.

I found my voice in books.

God’s holiness demands that sin be punished—but God’s love has provided the way of redemption through Christ.

Keep violence in the mind Where it belongs (Barefoot in the Head)

You are you. Now, isn't that unpleasant?

All free peoples are deeply impressed by the courage and steadfastness of the Greek nation.

I don't mind being criticized intelligently; although I don't love it.

A neighborhood friend showed me how it was possible to go to a camera shop and pick up chemicals for pennies... literally... and develop your own film and make prints.

Heartfelt, inspired songwritingwith a delivery both biting and assured.

I meet people, I like to ask: which sign are you?

I don't have any social life or anything.

Fear is a fire to temper courage and resolve. Use it so.