Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

A cynical young person is almost the saddest sight to see, because it means that he or she has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.

You can write a song about being in love with someone, but you don’t have to be in love with anyone.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.

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.

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

For me, the Immaculate Conception is the feast of ‚passive action,‘ the action that functions simply by the transmission through us of divine energy. Purity, in spite of outward appearances, is essentially an active virtue, because it concentrates God in us and on those who are subject to our influence.

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

To some extent I happily don’t know what I’m doing. I feel that it’s an artist’s responsibility to trust that.

Find new ways to spread the word of God to every corner of the world.

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

I’m just telling you, God permits things in our lives sometimes for reasons that we do not understand yet because of the spiritual level that we’re on. We can’t have any understanding of it, because we’re not at a place of spiritual growth yet where we understand the deeper things of God.

I always was a Christian… whatsoever a man thinks in his heart is who he is.

I never woke up and thought, ‚I really want to live a bold life.‘

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.

My dad always said, ‚Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.‘

Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.

It’s like a jar of salad dressing sitting on a shelf… most of the seasoning settles to the bottom of the bottle. But when you shake that bottle up, all the ingredients mix together and then the dressing can add flavor to a salad. In the same way, we can stir ourselves up and regain the reverence, respect and awe we once had for the Lord.

Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.

The Christian’s Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn’t dare do themselves.

I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.

There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.

I think maybe people see bands and musicians as some sort of superhero unrealistic sport that happens in another dimension where it’s not real people and not real emotions. So, I grew up listening to Beatles records on my floor. That’s how I learned how to play guitar. If it weren’t for them, I wouldn’t be a musician.

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

The Paralympic Games is about transforming our perception of the world.

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

Believers, look up – take courage. The angels are nearer than you think.

I think the best thing I ever did with my life was stand up and say I’ve got Alzheimer’s.

Let us all remember this: one cannot proclaim the Gospel of Jesus without the tangible witness of one’s life.

I have always thought I was the best ever player.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

When you become a Christian, something truly amazing happens: God comes to live inside your heart. You become the home of God.

Just try new things. Don’t be afraid. Step out of your comfort zones and soar, all right?

In art, at a certain level, there is no ‚better than.‘ It’s just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it. Trusting that, just because of the way people are built and how interconnected we are, greatness will translate and symmetry will be recognised.

It’s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It’s because we dare not venture that they are difficult.

Occasionally, some brother sings very earnestly through his nose, often disturbing those around him, but it does not matter how the voice sounds to the ears of man. What is important is how the heart sounds to the ears of God.

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.

A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That’s where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It’s having backbone.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Don’t be afraid to see what you see.

Young people can create beautiful things.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

When you turn your heart and your life over to Christ, when you accept Christ as the savior, it changes your heart.

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.