Any time we are misused or used for a purpose other than what God intended us for, it’s damaging.

Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way.

Scripture is filled with examples of men and women whom God used late in life, often with great impact – men and women who refused to use old age as an excuse to ignore what God wanted them to do.

Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me.

The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.

My purpose is to make exciting music, and I feel like I’ll be doing that for the rest of my life, so there’s no pressure.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning.

Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place.

Sometimes if you jump into something too quickly, you can screw up something that might have been good two years down the road.

I first had the idea of writing a popular book about the universe in 1982. My intention was partly to earn money to pay my daughter’s school fees.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

God’s got you in the palm of His hand. You won’t leave one second before your time. If God wants you to be here, then you’re going to be here.

The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The problem is the person or persons using it.

The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew’s cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo’s choice to know the truth. It’s a beautiful, beautiful story.

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there’s purpose and worth to each and every life.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children’s children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.

There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.

Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law.

If you’re going to do something tonight that you’ll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.

I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.

Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

And no, we don’t know where it will lead. We just know there’s something much bigger than any of us here.

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

I used to wonder if it was God’s plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.

I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.

The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things. If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.

At Real, psychological pressure on the players is much more serious than at United. This is good. At many clubs, you don’t know the consequence of playing badly.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.

Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.

From my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my mind.

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

To forget one’s purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to pieces.

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me.

Christ comes as a thief in the night, & it is not for us to know the times & seasons which God hath put into his own breast.