Sorry, but when anyone self-applies the label of "patriot" I gag a little.

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.

Love is fantasy....Life is reality

People tend to misinterpret imagination for being willing to do everything, instead of having the capability to put your mind to anything. There is a difference.

In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive.

If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.

Meditation is something that is indigenous to the heart, which makes it hard to talk about. We don't necessarily need to talk about it too much other than to get a sense of the practice.

I was a different person before I started to write. When I realized I could be a songwriter and that people would listen - that was when I started feeling good in my life.

If I could reach from pole to pole or grasp the ocean with a span, I would be measured by the soul The mind's the standard of the Man.

I don’t think I’ve ever felt this lost, even in Wales.

There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the moon or one of the planets.

A fairly young, intelligent-looking man with long hair asked me whether filming or being filmed could do harm, whether it could destroy a person. In my heart the answer was yes, but I said no.