I wake up every day inspiring myself, because God gave me life.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

I pay a lot of tax, and I feel, one of the reasons I stay and pay why I’m not based in Monaco… I think my country helped me.

The Bible says today is the accepted time, today is the day of salvation… But there will come a time when it will be too late for you.

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

Isn’t it amazing that we are all made in God’s image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?

Innovation can only occur where you can breathe free.

When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real. That is my world, you could say.

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

Faith is the complete reliance on the power and goodness of Spirit and the firm belief that you are always connected to this goodness. Always affirm your faith and not your doubt.

Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.

I do not abuse players. I talk to myself; I abuse myself. It’s my way of letting off steam. I do it after every century; I do not do it always. I keep telling myself: ‚Improve, improve from the previous match, the previous shot. You can do it.‘

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

We’re all dreamers.

We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

Not having hope is not an excuse for not doing something.

And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

God is on my side, and that’s all I need. I get up in the morning, I pray to God. I don’t pray to the president, the governor, the mayor, no black caucus, no this and that. I pray to God, and that’s the end of it.

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

God’s Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm. I love that.

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.

I don’t know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I’m a great gift to the world. I’ve been very fortunate.

When you are organizing a group of people, the first thing that we do is we talk about the history of what other people have been able to accomplish – people that look like them, workers like them, ordinary people, working people – and we give them the list: these are people like yourself; this is what they were able to do in their community.

People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn’t copy my style from anybody.

I sincerely hope I can contribute to the progress there has been in relations between Jews and Catholics since the Second Vatican Council in a spirit of renewed collaboration.

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

If you write in the same way over and over again, like, in the same place with the same techniques and with the same people, you’re sort of writing the same song over and over again.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

Why do I like to write short stories? Well, I certainly didn’t intend to. I was going to write a novel. And still! I still come up with ideas for novels. And I even start novels. But something happens to them. They break up. I look at what I really want to do with the material, and it never turns out to be a novel.

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

He chose to honor us with His priesthood. So we honor Him by honoring His priesthood – both its power and those who bear it.

When everything works best, it’s not because you chose writing but because writing chose you. It’s when you’re mad with it, it’s when it’s stuffed in your ears, your nostrils, under your fingernails. It’s when there’s no hope but that.

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

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter – for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way.

I just owe almost everything to my father and it’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

Certain though I am – and ever more certain – that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Believing is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith.

My mother was and will always remain my greatest hero.