How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

I believe in Coach Louis Wong. He is so much more than just a football coach.

These are the soul’s changes. I don’t believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.

To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.

Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today – but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

Some people are jerks, and some people aren’t.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

I used to take my short stories to girls‘ homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?

Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

I’m not looking to get away from anything. I like what I’ve done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible.

But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That’s what I strive to do, that’s what I pray to do every day.

I guess any movie actor can become a role model for audiences out there who enjoy him.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

If a small-town boy like me who bagged groceries was able to make his dreams come true, you can too.

Books are alive, you see. They’re not dead, they’re alive.

Let God’s promises shine on your problems.

Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin – find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.

I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.

I say to the paparazzi, ‚Fellas, take your shot and go.‘ It’s just they usually find me on a beach.

I’m trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He’s for them and has a purpose.

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth.

I’m really bad with answering questions. Usually, I don’t even answer them. I try to find inspiration inside of the question. I think, and I jump from one beam of inspiration or energy to the next, as opposed to explaining the energy.

I’ve never been a jealous person, and I’ve never felt built up by someone else’s failure – that’s a cheap thrill.

‚Two Voices,‘ from my album with Peter Schwalm, is an intact dream-poem. I awoke one night with an image of a piece of paper and all the words of the poem written on it, so I just blundered down to the kitchen table and ‚copied it out.‘

I said I was ‚The Greatest,‘ I never said I was the smartest!

That’s the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me.

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

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.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.

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

We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive.

Don’t feel sorry for me.

Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

Who sows virtue reaps honor.

Thomas Jefferson once said, ‚We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.‘ And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.

It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.