Saying both sides participated in violence doesn't mean both sides are equally ideologically wrong, you know.

God may allow us at times to hit rock bottom, to show us He's the rock-at the bottom.

Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light.

I know God is working so I smile!

If you want to have order in the commonwealth, you first have to have order in the individual soul.

I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.

My guitars are my umbilical cord. They're directly wired into my head.

The same sensations that you get in heavy metal are in horror movies. Heavy metal sounds evil and horror movies are evil, ha ha!

In order to achieve anything you must be brave enough to fail.

I came all this way for a reason. Today is the day of salvation. Trust Jesus to save you. Then be sincere as God knows a pretender.

God speaks with authority on every subject including marriage and His advice trumps Oprah's every time.

Well, we'll have no more of such foolishness, " I say harshly, to cover the wavering in my voice. "We're getting married, and that's that.

The only difference between success and failure is Lack of Vision

Try jogging when following your heart, it's healthier

It takes abstract thinking to see how greed can lead to prosperity, but it takes wishful thinking to claim that violence can lead to charity.

there are only these: sparkling eyes, smudged lipstick, fading starlight, the crunching of feet on gravel, laughter, and a slow walk home.

Perseverance is a positive, active characteristic. It is not idly, passively waiting and hoping for some good thing to happen.

Actors always want to be musicians, and musicians want to be actors

I've always found too that somewhere in whatever you've just written lies the seed of what you're going to write next.

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.