Life loves the liver of it.

Art is the proper task of life.

But when I hear a great song, I can’t help but be inspired by it, regardless of whatever genre that song falls under.

My days, my years, my life has seen up and downs, lights and darknesses. If I wrote only and continually of the ‚light‘ and never mentioned the other, then as an artist, I would be a liar.

Most employees only want to know how much they get paid and how much time off they get – they probably don’t have the mission in their souls.

If life is a checker game, someone else is moving the pieces. It isn’t us. Don’t be surprised by amazing coincidences. There are no accidents. Consider, as I learned to do, the incredible interconnectedness of all of life.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

Everything is my demon muse. I have a muse which whispers in my ear and says, ‚Do this, do that,‘ but it’s my demon who provokes me.

We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.

Billy Graham is one of my great lifetime heroes. I think he epitomizes the essence of what a Christian leader should be. I have participated in some of his crusades a couple of times in Atlanta. I’ve seen the profound impact he’s had on me personally, and on other people who were not Christians and accepted Christ as Savior.

No matter what, I always make it home for Christmas. I love to go to my Tennessee Mountain Home and invite all of my nieces and nephews and their spouses and kids and do what we all like to do – eat, laugh, trade presents and just enjoy each other… and sometimes I even dress up like Santa Claus!

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

I kind of love Cole Miller.

Of life’s two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer’s hand.

You have to stay faithful to what you’re working on.

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Reality has a way of intruding. Reality eventually intrudes on everything.

The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution – this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can’t put a dollar sign on.

This guy Clubber Lang, I’ve been him all my life. He’s mean and hungry just like me.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

Don’t be a writer; it’s a terrible way to live your life. There’s nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don’t expect anything from anybody.

You always want your people to be proud of what you have accomplished.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

Life begins on the other side of despair.

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

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love – first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn’t be anything for us to do.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

I think if we didn’t contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.

I’d rather be a victor than a victim.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Steven Spielberg was my childhood hero.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

It has been hard for me to find it, but I have found love.

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

It is natural to want to have a future.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.

If I inspire you, pay for it, period.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

Be not simply good – be good for something.

Success is not a stop sign.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.