I do believe in the energy and the productivity of the American business world.

Outlook 2003 did create the idea of search folders and the whole Longhorn philosophy. You can see it at work in search folders, where instead of having to drop things into individual folders, and things exist only in one folder, you create these search folders and you have the criteria for the search folder.

I’m not in the business of ranking or debating who is what.

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics – a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage – surely that proves that you are in the right?

I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.

Trash talk? Smack talk? This is an American term that makes me laugh. I simply speak the truth. I’m an Irish man.

To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.

Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.

Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.

I answer only to God.

I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.

I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

Never mistake motion for action.

I believe many people feel like God is mad at them.

I don’t go to bed at 1 A.M. and wake up at 5 A.M. and say, ‚Let’s see if I can get this done today.‘

If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

The Christian’s Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

I wonder how many decisions we make every day. I believe it’s probably hundreds. We decide whether or not to get out of bed, what we’ll eat, what we’ll do, what we’ll think about, what we’ll say… and on and on.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

I don’t really believe in the type of pressure that people are wanting to put on the type of music that I make.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

In my opinion, baseball is as big a business as anything there is. It has to be a business, the way it is conducted.

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.

That’s when it becomes a business. When you’ve been public a long time, when it’s a career. You do certain films, you sell them.

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

I would venture to guess that the biggest reason creative types don’t produce isn’t because they don’t have vision… or talent… in most cases, it’s a lack of discipline.

Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have no time in the day to themselves.

No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this – that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made – not to understand – but to feel – as crime.

I’m a bold Christian, not a scaredy-cat Christian.

People like Frank Zappa and Bryan Ferry knew we could pick and choose from the history of music, stick things together looking for friction and energy. They were more like playwrights; they invented characters and wrote a life around them.

If you can build a business up big enough, it’s respectable.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Choosing an attitude of faith will release peace out of your spirit and into your soul.

I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person’s life. God is in everyone’s life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else – God is in this person’s life. You can – you must – try to seek God in every human life.

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

Fuel prices are at the center of our lives. They affect our ability to travel, stay warm, and feed ourselves.

If you believe in prayer at all, expect God to hear you. If you do not expect, you will not have. God will not hear you unless you believe He will hear you; but if you believe He will, He will be as good as your faith.

Electricity is really just organized lightning.

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

I don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.

In my father’s generation, the product was 80 percent of what you were putting into the world, and your personal life was 20 percent. It now seems that 80 percent of the product I put out is silly, made-up stories and what I’m wearing.

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

I speak to you only as an American who happens to be an American Negro and one who is proud of that heritage. We ask for nothing special. We ask only that we be permitted to compete on an even basis, and if we are not worthy, then the competition shall, per se, eliminate us.

Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap – let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

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.