To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil.

People see God every day, they just don't recognize him.

No one can figure out your worth but you.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

You must change in order to survive.

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.

I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.

Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.

It is easy to love God when you do not even have a cent in your pocket and you are totally dependent on Him

As ofttimes as it rains on my little spot of earth, you'd think I'd grow accustomed to the gloom.

The most crucial problem with intellectual learning is that it receives the unknown on the grounds of the known.

You have what it takes to push forward or to move backwards, but only one of these directions is capable of compensating you for all your pain and sufferings.

Too many American authors have a servile streak where their backbone should be. Where's our latest Nobel laureate? More than likely you'll find him in the Rose Garden kissing the First Lady's foot.

When the music is physically demanding, I want to make sure that the effort involved is put across to the audience through physical gesture.

I feel you see every crack and bruise with black and white [pictiures] and color distracts usually from the honesty.

Perspective is a moment in time that cannot be fully appreciated until that moment has passed.

What's the simplest thing that could possibly work?

Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.