Every day is a gift from God. There’s no guarantee of tomorrow, so that tells me to see the good in this day to make the most of it.

When I’m in the house of God, I don’t wear my jewelry, if you’re looking for my jewelry. All you see is my heart of gold.

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

In all my work, I try to say – ‚You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?‘

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.

Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger.

I’m always happy to blow up any misconceptions that people have about stage school cos everyone thinks it’s really nasty there but it’s not.

When you draw or paint a tree, you do not imitate the tree; you do not copy it exactly as it is, which would be mere photography. To be free to paint a tree or a flower or a sunset, you have to feel what it conveys to you: the significance, the meaning of it.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

How much better it would be if all could be more aware of God’s providence and love and express that gratitude to Him.

Let God’s promises shine on your problems.

When you make a mistake and the devil comes and tells you ‚You’re no good,‘ you don’t have to take on the guilt and condemnation he wants to put on you. No! You can immediately confess your mistake to God, thank Him for forgiving you and cleansing you with the blood of Jesus, and move forward in the victory of His grace and forgiveness.

When I’m in the studio, I’m looking for creativity I haven’t matched yet, a feeling I haven’t felt. It’s a high.

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

Life’s too short to deal with other people’s insecurities.

I liked his ability to deal with a lot of the negativity that surrounded him. Even though he was in a world that he didn’t want to be in, he still saw the bigger picture.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

I’ve learned through my own relationship with God that He’s not expecting me to be perfect; He wants me to do my best to be in His will and take steps of faith as He leads me, through His Word and the promptings He speaks to my heart.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

I ain’t never far away from a pencil and paper or a tape recorder.

With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It’s made up of pioneers, the beginners. That’s where the action is.

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don’t believe too much into inspiration, only I’m waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It’s a little too easy to say that.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

I’m a big perfectionist! I’m trying to channel super-confident women like Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey and Beyonce, because I realized that if you want something, you really have to go for it, just like they do.

If you abandon the present moment, you cannot live the moments of your daily life deeply.

Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

To be treated well in places where you don’t expect to be treated well, to find things in common with people you thought previously you had very, very little in common with, that can’t be a bad thing.

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

Simplify, simplify.

I love to sit and eat quietly and enjoy each bite, aware of the presence of my community, aware of all the hard and loving work that has gone into my food.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

I am a nuclear physicist by training and a deeply committed Christian. I don’t have any doubt in my own mind about God who created the entire universe. But I don’t adhere to passages that so and so was created 4,000 years before Christ, and things of that kind.

The older I get, the better I understand that every day is a gift.

There is a power in God’s gospel beyond all description.

I always thought Johnny Carson was just brilliant, and I used to watch him and all the comics that would be on the show every night – and I’d dream about it being me.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

Why don’t you start believing that no matter what you have or haven’t done, that your best days are still out in front of you.

Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.

I think my biggest musical hero growing up was probably Ian MacKaye. He set a great example for all of us local musicians. Still, to this day, I see him as the best example of a right-on musician.

Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don’t give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

Christianity is a lifestyle. And being a Christian is more than a label.

To be awake is to be alive.

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

Spiritual worldliness kills! It kills the soul! It kills the Church!

The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.