Faith activates God – Fear activates the Enemy.

Mormonism is a little different, but I still see them as brothers in Christ.

If I inspire you, pay for it, period.

God’s mercy and grace give me hope – for myself, and for our world.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

I feel like my message is to let people know that God is a good God, that He’s on their side, and no matter what happens, He has a great plan for them.

If you deserve it, go get it.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.

I ain’t here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I’m just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that’s the way yall need Jesus.

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

Satan is the master distracter. He is always working to keep us off track in our walk with God.

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

The topic of leadership is a touchy one. A lot of leaders fail because they don’t have the bravery to touch that nerve or strike that chord. Throughout my years, I haven’t had that fear.

I just really believe people have to get hungry. I think maybe what we need to do, instead of trying to stuff our beliefs down people’s throats, is just pray for them to really be hungry and to see their neediness.

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

Each one prays to God according to his own light.

My inspiration is R. Kelly, Michael Jackson, and Prince – for the vocals, anyway.

I’m never going to go to Mars, but I’ve helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars.

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

I never woke up and thought, ‚I really want to live a bold life.‘

The idea that to make a man work you’ve got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We’ve done that for so long that we’ve forgotten there’s any other way.

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.

God’s mercy is fresh and new every morning.

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.

The word ‚God‘ usually signifies ‚Lord‘, but every lord is not a God. It is the dominion of a spiritual being which constitutes a God: a true, supreme, or imaginary dominion makes a true, supreme, or imaginary God.

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

In this great country, we celebrate success. We don’t want to penalize those who have done well.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

As much as I love the Western genre, I figured if I kept doing those, I’d eventually run out of steam on that, and that would’ve been the end of it.

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.

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature’s God.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.

Kitty Wells was the first and only Queen of Country Music, no matter what they call the rest of us. She was a great inspiration to me as well as every other female singer in the country music business. In addition to being a wonderful asset to country music, she was a wonderful woman.

It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know. And writing Langston Hughes replica poems became me wanting to write like Stevie Wonder.

Prince Charles is definitely my hero; he uses his position to do only good in this world.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

Risk is a part of God’s game, alike for men and nations.

If you ask people what they’ve always wanted to do, most people haven’t done it. That breaks my heart.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

I knew I wasn’t going to be a rocket scientist – let’s not be fools – but I wasn’t going to be a bum.

It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

In art, at a certain level, there is no ‚better than.‘ It’s just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it. Trusting that, just because of the way people are built and how interconnected we are, greatness will translate and symmetry will be recognised.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

Zappa was very technical and impressed by things that were musically challenging – weird time signatures, strange keys, awkward chord sequences. Zappa was important to me as an example of everything I didn’t want to do. I’m very grateful to him, actually.