Prayer is the key to success. Not to pray is to fail. To pray aright is never to fail.

If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results.

A wonderful bird is a pelican, His bill will hold more than his belican. He can take in his beak Food enough for a week; But I'm damned if I see how the helican.

The blues will always be because the blues are the roots of all American music.

Tribalism is the most powerful force in the world.

A bad rendition of you is better than a good rendition of somebody else.

A ship without Marines is like a garment without buttons.

Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything.

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Motivation is a battle for the heart, not just an appeal to the mind. Passion is always an expression of the soul.

I want to win a championship and to win the Indy 500 makes me want it so much more.

It is not our right to punish one for thinking as he does, no matter how much we disagree.

The world promises you so much...and leaves you empty. God's promises are for real and forever.

I am one of those people who is not very patient in the makeup chair. I have been offered movies like 'Planet of the Apes' and stuff like 'The Grinch Who Stole Christmas' and I turned them down.

It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.

We should be servants of Jesus not masters of people

Of the truly creative no one is ever master; it must be left to go its own way.

Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.

We do not increase compassion by expanding it to cover anything. Instead, we kill a good word by making it mean too much, and nothing.

1992 is not a year I shall look back on with undiluted pleasure. In the words of one of my more sympathetic correspondents, it hasturned out to be an Annus Horribilis.

It hurts not the tongue to give fair words.