The artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult

A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.

The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution

Don't stumble over something behind you.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in his power to try himself.

It's all in your headJ you have the power to make things seem hard or easy or even amusing. The choice is yours.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

Ashes have no fear to burn in hellIn your heart's paradise angels dwellRib cage fastens all sins of the wrongYour bones will sing you mortality’s song

Love is something that u feel inside that others can not.

There are people who think they know everything about everything. What they don't know is that every moment is a learning moment.

If I can't eat the meal in a restaurant, and the waiter asks, 'Is everything all right, Madam?', I tell them that I'm on a diet.

He tried to reconstruct the story in his mind, but it kept getting confused, bleeding into itself like watercolors.

I have my own biography of Gram Parsons - I don't want to be part of somebody else's.

The men of the past had convictions, while we moderns have only opinions.

The discussion of prayer is so great that it requires the Father to reveal it, His firstborn Word to teach it, and the Spirit to enable us to think and speak rightly of so great a subject.

I've still got the same attitude I had when I started. I haven't changed anything but my underwear.

I really hesitate to say that any of my shows influenced other writers.