I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age. Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin‘ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

I don’t want to make money; I want to make a difference.

Where there is love there is life.

If you like it you should enjoy it! Moderation in everything. If there’s things you really love, you should enjoy. You get one life, so you should enjoy it.

People who don’t know the true character of God – who don’t believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger – can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.

I don’t believe in nepotism. I don’t much like the idea of parents who interfere.

Memories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.

I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.

I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

I’m definitely gaining new fans, and that’s the key of any success… gain more love.

If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes, Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn’t take much to make us flip back into monkeys again.

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

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

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

There is a ‚sanctity‘ involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Such is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be subject to all possible superstitions, as long as they are not murderous, than to live without religion.

I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God’s will.

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.

Clinicians, academicians, and politicians are often put to a test of faith. In pursuit of their goals, will their religion show or will it be hidden? Are they tied back to God or to man?

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

I just want to lobby for God.

America is not nearly done. We’re only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows… what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants – if they survive that long – will see.

I’ve read the last page of the Bible. It’s all going to turn out all right.

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

I don’t believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

I love New York. I’m a guy for whom a New York accent is a comforting thing.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I’ve had. And now that I’m in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won’t be half as much anger as there was.

Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Motives reveal why we do what we do, which is actually more important to God than what we’re doing.

Mr. T. been to chemo, Mr. T been to radiation, hair fall out… but he’s back. Now I can give hope when I go to the hospital, see the sick kids with cancer, tell them, don’t quit.

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

Christianity is a lifestyle. And being a Christian is more than a label.

The heart is forever inexperienced.

I think love is one of the purest things you can sing about. One of the best things you can sing about.

God always has patience.

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston, I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song, and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, ‚Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed.‘

I can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

When there’s justice and change, you start to see the cleansing of the soul, and that is what I want for people, and I hope it’s okay for me to say those things.

I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.

Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

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.