That’s what it means to be in love, Marin. It means doing everything in your power to ensure that the one you love lives to see another day, because the world would be that much darker without them.

Enlightenment is the moment when you are most alive and most compassionate.

Born down in a dead man's town, The first kick I took was when I hit the ground, You end up like a dog that's been beat too much, Till you spend half your life just covering up...

I think for the next 50 years I'm not going to be able to stop because of the light that you shine for me and so many millions of Americans.

Surely those who know the great passionate heart of Jehovah must deny their own loves to share in the expression of His.

Over the years, Ive covered 22,000 miles.

Never neglect what you can do for yourself in the form of another.

The opposite of Christianity is not atheism, but idolatry.

It started off really…claustrophobic. I feel like I was really really protected. Really guarded with myself. I feel like they [Def Jam] were giving me the blueprint and I couldn’t get with that

We have made remarkable progress in the last hundred years, but if we want to continue, our future is in space.

Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.