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

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.

There are phases in life which surface at times, and it makes you understand that despite you working hard, everything what you are doing is probably not enough. That’s when you need to look around, and beyond.

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

I try to make it look easy, but the behind-the-scenes stuff is the challenge.

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

I’d go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

The more I see of deer, the more I admire them as mountaineers. They make their way into the heart of the roughest solitudes with smooth reserve of strength, through dense belts of brush and forest encumbered with fallen trees and boulder piles, across canons, roaring streams, and snow-fields, ever showing forth beauty and courage.

They are resilient children, but they are children, and as much as they need help to understand the hard truths in life, they also need what we all need – protection and love.

My life is not unlike Truman’s. I can’t go anywhere.

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith.

Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord’s side.

Real Christianity can be summed up in two commands: Love God, and love people.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

I don’t think that faith, whatever you’re being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don’t want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There’s so much mystery. There’s so much awe.

Children always turn to the light.

I was reared in the church, in the Presbyterian Church.

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I’m trying to say is I’m trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

I always dreamt of holding the bat and winning games for India. That was my inspiration to take up cricket.

I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief… All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

My drive is other people’s success.

Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much larger. Some are villains and others are good guys. But all of them are necessary; otherwise, they wouldn’t be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They’re just braver five minutes longer.

I believe in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

We cannot have communion with Christ till we are in union with Him; and we cannot have communion with the Church till we are in vital union with it.

I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music – which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there’s no dream that’s too big.

Life’s short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It’s best not to ask questions and just enjoy.

The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

People don’t realize that we, we meaning people in show business, have the same problems as everyone else. Money doesn’t change that. Fame doesn’t change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it’s just a different kind of problems.

I found it hard to be young. When I was married in my twenties, I hated being regarded as ‚the little wife.‘ You don’t know what it was like then! I’d never even written a cheque. I had to ask my husband for money for groceries.

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that’s a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.

No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

If you have God on your side, everything becomes clear.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

It’s a mystery. That’s the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it’s mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.

If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.

God knows what we are going through when we grieve, and He wants to assure us of His love and concern. He also wants us to turn to Him and bring our heartaches and burdens to Him.

Stand a little less between me and the sun.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.