When we depend upon organizations, we get what organizations can do. But when we depend upon prayer, we get what God can do.

If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results.

A wonderful bird is a pelican, His bill will hold more than his belican. He can take in his beak Food enough for a week; But I'm damned if I see how the helican.

The blues will always be because the blues are the roots of all American music.

Tribalism is the most powerful force in the world.

A bad rendition of you is better than a good rendition of somebody else.

A ship without Marines is like a garment without buttons.

Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything.

Fear is the biggest motivator.

Motivation is a battle for the heart, not just an appeal to the mind. Passion is always an expression of the soul.

I want to win a championship and to win the Indy 500 makes me want it so much more.

She'd always been comforted by how many words there were in the English language -- more than a million. With so many words surely anything could be said, everything could be under

Don't allow ambition to rob you of destiny.

Like when people say they slept like a baby. Do they mean they slept well? Or do they mean they woke up every ten minutes, screaming?

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

I want to be alone. I need to touch each stone, face the grave that I have grown. I want to be alone.

I think by default I wanted to be an actor because, on a movie set as a little kid, the only thing that you can do is be an actor. And I was really enthralled by the whole process.

It is some relief to weep; grief is satisfied and carried off by tears.

I live about six miles from where I was born and raised.

We're the party that wants to see an America in which people can still get rich.

The way you look for songs, you find yourself looking for little signals and clues about life and how things are.