War can only be qualified by its object, and there is neither foreign war nor civil war, there is only just or unjust war.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

To love beauty is to see light.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

The story is told of yourself.

The people who need to grow, are the ones allowed the least chance to have a say in their own growth.

No new reader, however charitable, could open “Fifty Shades of Grey,” browse a few paragraphs, and reasonably conclude that the author was writing in her first language, or even her fourth.

This is who I am. Not everybody has to like it.

Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but enjoyed.

Even in my music, I am always searching for big, universal things - ways that you can sort of reach outside the norm of what you are doing.

They can crumble as easily as ice cream in this heat

How do we bring glory to God? The Bible’s short answer is: by growing more and more like Jesus Christ.

I just have a respect for my audience. That seems to be pretty logical.

Childhood is long and narrow like a coffin, and you can't get out of it on your own.