I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.

It’s certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

There are two great forces, God’s force of good and the devil’s force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don’t understand.

We think when God speaks to us, there’s going to be a boom out of Heaven or we’re going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God’s talking to us all the time. He’s talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it’s the Holy Spirit talking to us.

I didn’t have nothin‘ going for me… school, home… until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

We can never make ourselves better by trying… praying more or longer, studying more of the Word, performing good works, etc. Don’t get me wrong… it’s not bad to do any of these things. In fact, it’s good. It’s just that doing them in God’s power is the only way those things will have any real and lasting effect in our lives.

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves.

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

Sometimes, if you begin to sing in a halfhearted mood, you can sing yourself up the ladder. Singing will often make the heart rise.

I’m not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.

A Christian who does not pray for those who govern is not a good Christian.

Sometimes I’ll jot a clever turn of phrase down. Sometimes I’ll just remember it.

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.

You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

I believe in universal health care. And I am not afraid to say so.

The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously. This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn’t allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

I want to be like Bruce Springsteen or something, making songs that are relevant.

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.

I’ve been blessed to be somebody that’s been climbing that success mountain top for years of hard work, you know, but now it’s all connecting. And now, the whole world is watching, you know what I’m saying, and it feels good ‚cause it’s good energy. This is all positive vibes, and good vibes and good energy, so it feels incredible.

How sweet it is to learn the Savior’s love when nobody else loves us! When friends flee, what a blessed thing it is to see that the Savior does not forsake us but still keeps us and holds us fast and clings to us and will not let us go!

But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What’s the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.

Honoring the priesthood fosters respect, respect promotes reverence, and reverence invites revelation.

My favorite literary heroine is Jo March. It is hard to overstate what she meant to a small, plain girl called Jo, who had a hot temper and a burning ambition to be a writer.

Within all of us is a divine capacity to manifest and attract all that we need and desire.

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

God puts people in our lives on purpose so we can help them succeed and help them become all He created them to be. Most people will not reach their full potential without somebody else believing in them.

If a man does his best, what else is there?

Why is it that although it takes us years to get into our messes, we expect God to get us out of them in a few days?

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed… It doesn’t give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.

There’s a belief that you’re supposed to be poor, and suffering, and show your humility. I just don’t see the Bible that way. I see that God came and Jesus died so that we might live an abundant life and be a blessing to others.

I say, don’t try to fight your own battles because God will do it.

God wants to help us… He loves us… we are His children. But He will not force His help on us at any time. He sees us when we struggle and fight and complain our way through things. And I believe it breaks His heart, when all we have to do is ask Him for help.

Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.

People are looking for something a little more stable; people are feeling like they need to get closer to God.

I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.

I fear that there are too many priesthood bearers who have done little or nothing to develop their ability to access the powers of Heaven.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

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.

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

Writing is such a strange, utterly mysterious process. First, there was nothing; then, suddenly, there was something. I don’t know where thoughts are born. Where the hell does it come from? I don’t know. I really don’t know.

I sincerely believe… that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

I grew up in a rural area called Vega Baja and I’m the first of so many talented people in this area to make it out. I take great pride to represent where I come from and I am able to show my fans, and everyone who listens and watches me, that anything is possible.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

Man is not born to atheism. He is born to believe.

And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I’m going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I’m going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.

I always feel like it’s two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that’s step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

I’ve never dropped anyone I believed in.

For those of you who do not know Him, choosing your eternal home is the most important decision you will ever make.