I get up every morning and say, ‚Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength, Lord, so when I speak, my words might motivate, might inspire somebody, Lord, when they see me, let them see you. When they hear me, Lord, let them hear you. In your holy name I pray.‘

Be smarter than other people, just don’t tell them so.

Music is this divine thing, the closest that we can get to something divine. It’s like this instinct we all own, and some of us have found a way to hear that music and write it down and share it with people.

God not only plays dice, but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

Never complain and never explain.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

It is natural to want to have a future.

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is far deeper than that – it is spiritual transaction with the Creator of Heaven and Earth.

If you will do what God tells you to do, there’s no person on Earth and no devil in Hell that can keep you from having what God wants you to have.

When we trust God more than our feelings, it confuses the devil. I mean, when he throws you his best shot and he can’t budge you from believing God, he won’t know what to do with you anymore.

As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.

Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

I am a Catholic.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

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

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

It’s true my father abused me and didn’t love and protect me the way he should have, and at times it seemed no one would ever help me and it would never end. But God always had a plan for my life, and He has redeemed me.

The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.

I never thought of losing, but now that it‘ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.

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

Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it’s an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we’re facing.

I believe that when you think of the negative, and you get up discouraged – ‚There’s nothing good in my future‘ – I really believe it almost ties the hands of God. God works where there’s an attitude of faith. I believe faith is all about hope.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.

I am simply trying to struggle through life; trying to do God’s bidding.

There are no second acts in American lives.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

The truth of it is that every singer out there with songs on the radio is raising the next generation, so make your words count.

‚Victory‘ is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It’s just about reaching a place in myself.

Don’t worry about motivation. Motivation is fickle. It comes and goes. It is unreliable – and when you are counting on motivation to get your goals accomplished, you will likely fall short.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.

Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.

I mean we all need a second chance sometimes.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.

I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.

It doesn’t matter if you want to be a teacher, an astronaut, or a reggaeton singer, you need to study.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.

We all have two lives: an inner life and an outer life. Your inner life is your soul life, which includes your mind, will and emotions. Your outer life is your physical life. And while God cares about every detail of your life, He is more concerned with your inner life than your outer life.

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

If a subject excites us, if it stirs our deepest curiosity, or if we have to learn because the stakes are high, we pay much more attention. What we absorb sinks in.

If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.

Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

You want me to own a team and deal with these rich, spoiled stubborn athletes, and try to get them to perform? No thank you.

As I followed my dream – stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired – I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.

You are victors, not victims!

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.