The will of man without the grace of God is not free at all, but is the permanent prisoner and bondslave of evil since it cannot turn itself to good.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.

The time is always right to do what is right.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

The time is always right to do the right thing.

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer!

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does.

He imagined forgiveness was like flying, that it made you soar. He imagined that it looked like an eagle, a silver bolt in the sky, that it was pure light.

Sometimes I feel certain that the hyenas are laughing at us.

There lives more faith in honest doubt Believe me than in half the creeds

If you're a producer, you always spend too much money because you want that shot - and you're willing to spend a bundle to get it.

The music I play and write is all reflective of myself and the experiences in my life. I feel like my whole journey is just collecting stories and songs along the way.

The artist must reckon with his own character flaws, which do not disappear just because he has been called to be an artist.

Irving Berlin has no place in American music -- he is American music.

What True Blood does really well is that it balances on the line between good and evil - you blur the distinction between the two.

Israel has a sizeable nuclear arsenal and could retaliate if it were attacked.

The whole process of mental adjustment and atunement can be summed up in one word: Gratitude