My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

God has entrusted me with myself.

God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right person, or suddenly your health improves, or suddenly you’re able to pay off your house. That’s God shifting things in your favor.

We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

I am a Christian, and the Bible teaches me to forgive.

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone’s wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

I believe that I have received Jesus Christ into my heart. I believe that he has covered all of my sins.

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

When I’m in the house of God, I don’t wear my jewelry, if you’re looking for my jewelry. All you see is my heart of gold.

The kindness that’s been shown to me, by doctors as well as my family and my friends, it’s really saved my life.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

I don’t travel with them, but they can’t be missing in my home. There have to always be dominoes… I used to play with my family – dad, my grandpa, my uncles.

We should not look down on our first ancestors.

O, Thou precious Lord Jesus Christ, we do adore Thee with all our hearts. Thou art Lord of all.

If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around .600.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

I think as long as I do a good job and put in all my effort to proving that I’m worth it, then everything should be fine.

If music be the food of love, play on.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.

Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That’s what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don’t. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He’s a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life.

I used to say to my late wife, ‚I have great faith in the American people.‘

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.

I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background, and I think the greatest thing to do is to pray that God will give you love for them, and I do.

It’s not essential for me to have a big debut week; it’s not essential for me to have big radio records.

‚Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I’m writing about New York.

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.

God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.

I met my husband before I became a star, and he doesn’t care about any of it.

Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves.

‚God‘ is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and ‚Deity‘ is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

As a producer, as a CEO of Hartbeat Productions, I am making deals to put my company in place to win, to put my staff to work so that while all this stuff is going on, they’re in the kitchen cooking. So it’s understanding the longevity of the entertainment business; you get out of it what you put into it.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

Sin, also for those who don’t have faith, exists when one goes against one’s conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Only the really plain people know about love – the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.

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.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can’t have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I’d rather not be in a cage. I’d rather be dead. And it’s real simple. And I think it’s not that uncommon.

Me don’t dip on nobody’s side. Me don’t dip on the black man’s side, not the white man’s side. Me dip on God’s side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

My goal is just to be respected as a man when I walk down the street with my family. I don’t care what your job is, you’re not gonna talk down to me, you’re not gonna try to get a rise out of me. I’m a man first. And in establishing that, some interesting things have happened.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

It is necessary to fall in love… if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

With all the… success that I’ve been lucky enough to get? That doesn’t happen unless the home life is solid.

We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.

Even the best teams can fail. Celebrities can fade. There is only One in whom your faith is always safe, and that is in the Lord Jesus Christ. And you need to let your faith show!

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

You can’t be in love with a Google search.

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.

In prayer, we stand where angels bow with veiled faces. There, even there, the cherubim and seraphim adore before that selfsame throne to which our prayers ascend. And shall we come there with stunted requests and narrow, contracted faith?