So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

You don’t look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

I definitely don’t think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.

Talking isn’t doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

Every man’s reputation proceeds from those of his own household.

When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it’s as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.

Whenever I’m around some who is modest, I think, ‚Run like hell and all of fire.‘ You don’t want modesty, you want humility.

You always have to remember that if you say something negative, it’s going to come back to haunt you.

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, ‚Did you sleep good?‘ I said ‚No, I made a few mistakes.‘

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

People like music when they’re in love, but they don’t need it as much. You need music when you’re missing someone or you’re pining for someone or you’re forgetting someone or you’re trying to process what just happened.

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.

If God dropped acid, would he see people?

You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people’s command of English – that’s nonsense.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they’re much more open.

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

Searching for music is like searching for God. They’re very similar. There’s an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unseeable, the unspeakable, all those things, comes into being a composer and to writing music and to searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don’t exist.

I have not worked out my poems with a careful will, falling rather on haphazard and blind formulation of wordage, a more flowing concept, in a hope for a more new and lively path. I do personalize at times, but this only for the grace and elan of the dance.

To understand the power of the priesthood, we must know its limitations.

I looked the people of Louisiana in the eye and told them exactly what I thought in terms that normal people use.

People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like – that’s a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.

One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.

I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God’s creation.

I always try to put a seed of hope into people’s hearts. I’m not there to teach them doctrine necessarily, but to let them know that God is a good God, and has a plan for their lives. Hopefully, that will restore their faith, or draw them into faith.

I cannot read a single word of the Hindoos without being elevated.

God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.

Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

I had no bad moment in my relationship with Dortmund. Not one second.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

We never love a person, but only qualities.

You know, as a writer, I’m more of a listener than a writer, cuz if I hear something I will write it down.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Arthur Miller wouldn’t have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.

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

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity.

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

I guess any movie actor can become a role model for audiences out there who enjoy him.

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

I’m an atheist, and the concept of god for me is all part of what I call ‚the last illusion.‘ The last illusion is someone knows what is going on. Nearly everyone has that illusion somewhere, and it manifests not only in the terms of the idea that there is a god but that it knows what’s going on but that the planets know what’s going on.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

Seemingly, man has learned to live without God, preoccupied and indifferent toward Him and concerned only about material security and pleasure.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.