Two things don't need to be "equally bad" to point out that they're both bad.

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.

I was nervous and confident at the same time nervous about going out there in front of all of those people with so much at stake and confident that I was going to go out there and win.

What I am is a thinking, feeling human being compelled by history.

A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Why look in the dark for light?

The things which cannot be adequately represented by words are more important than those which can.

In Manhattan, I often do two or three or more shows a night, so I'm always working on new material.

The love of form is a love of endings.

The Electoral College has been with us since the first days of America.

The boundary condition of the universe is that it has no boundary.

Modern recording has made it so that people can spend forever taking shortcuts and making everything uniform, but that strips music of what makes it exciting.