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

There’s place and means for every man alive.

It’s what counts, isn’t it, on the Sunday, rather than pre-season testing. If you lock up, you do a little mistake, it’s nothing, but if you do it on Sunday, you lose a place or you have to box for a flat spot or something like that. It’s a much bigger problem.

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.

I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.

There is no question that liberals do an impressive job of expressing concern for blacks. But do the intentions expressed in their words match the actual consequences of their deeds?

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

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

I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

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

When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.

The Bible says that God has a reason for keeping us here; if He didn’t, He would take us to Heaven far sooner.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

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.

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.

No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.

I’ve got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.

Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.

Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that’s their gift.

The fact is, violence is not only not a beautiful thing, but it’s also very painful and not without consequences for the perpetrator as well as the victim.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

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

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.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.

By that sin fell the angels.

Sometimes, I think if you get away from what you’re called to do, it’s more of a distraction.

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.

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.

He who acts with a constant view to his own advantage will be much murmured against.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

Why am I here? I’m not lucky. That’s God.

I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems… It’s got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.

Our intention creates our reality.

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

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

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

I always knew who I was, and I always ran from my true purpose… I know what my job is. And I always ran from it.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

People have to go through trials and tribulations to get where they at. Do your thing – continue to rock it – because obviously, God wants you here.

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

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

So long as our Corps fields such Marines, America has nothing to fear from tyrants, be they Fascists, Communists or Tyrants with Medieval Ideology. For we serve in a Corps with no institutional confusion about our purpose: To fight! To fight well!

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.

The action we take and the decisions we make in this decade will have consequences far into this century. If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.

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

Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

The important thing is to be in love with something.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

True happiness… is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

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.

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

I have so much in my life. I want to be of value to the world.