avarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else's good.

Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.

Start being brave about everything. Drive out darkness and spread light. Don’ look at your weaknesses. Realize instead that in Christ crucified you can do everything.

You are rewarded not according to your work or your time but according to the measure of your love.

Preach the Truth as if you had a million voices. It is silence that kills the world.

What is it you want to change? Your hair, your face, your body? Why? For God is in love with all those things and he might weep when they are gone.

To the servant of God... every place is the right place, and every time is the right time.

A soul cannot live without loving. It must have something to love, for it was created to love.

Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.

It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.

He will provide the way and the means, such as you could never have imagined. Leave it all to Him, let go of yourself, lose yourself on the Cross, and you will find yourself entirely.

But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.

In order to become great, one must understand the secret of time conversion.

Eventually you'll get tired of going through the motions with very little emotion.

And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and individual freedom.

It's not my fault everybody wants me

Royalty is my identity. Servanthood is my assignment. Intimacy with God is my life source.

Changing your attitude has a curative effect... Maybe you can go directly to a change of mind, a change of attitude.

Snobbery management is as difficult and necessary as anger management.

While language can surely be used for communication (as can much else), communication probably has no special role in its design or evolution.

I'm not stupid enough to want to be famous. But I would like to be able to earn a living playing music.