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

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.

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

A beautiful homily, a genuine sermon, must begin with the first proclamation, with the proclamation of salvation. There is nothing more solid, deep and sure than this proclamation.

Success is not a stop sign.

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms – in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

As we regularly spend time reading God’s Word and talking to Him in prayer, we put ourselves in position for Him to do things in our lives we could never do on our own.

I draw pleasure in governance, in doing new things and bringing people together. That pleasure is all I need from life.

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

Members of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir are not superhuman. They are ordinary people with ordinary frailties. But therein lies the power of their example.

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

Some Christians feel guilty when they are doing something that isn’t ‚spiritual.‘ Somehow or another, they feel the need to hurry through the grocery store, dash through the house cleaning, and rush through all the daily aspects of life that seem irrelevant to their faith.

I’ve always believed in God. I also think that’s the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you’re in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.

Modern science says: ‚The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.‘ From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.

Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.

Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me.

As scientists, we step on the shoulders of science, building on the work that has come before us – aiming to inspire a new generation of young scientists to continue once we are gone.

Losing is not an option in Kolkata. It’s not easy, a lot of players even quit.

I’m not afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.

In every walk of life, you must have leaders. An education in the spiritual world, in the labor field, in the agricultural field, we must have leaders.

If you’re going through hell, keep going.

Death is a fearful thing.

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

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

The eagle has no fear of adversity. We need to be like the eagle and have a fearless spirit of a conqueror!

Life is wasted on the living.

Faith is easy; I think people complicate it.

I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.

All I ever wanted to do with my life was own a little house. I did that way back with ‚Rocky,‘ so now everything I do is just icing on the cake.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: ‚Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?‘

Miracles come in moments. Be ready and willing.

The uncertainty of parenting can bring up feelings in us that range from frustration to terror.

I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn’t trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

Marines don’t know how to spell the word ‚defeat‘.

A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit’s aid than he can create a world.

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

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

Allah’s the Arabic term for God. Stand up for God, fight for God, work for God and do the right thing, and go the right way, things will end up in your corner.

It’s impossible to live a life totally free of feelings. God created all of us to be emotional creatures, and feelings are a big part of our lives.

I didn’t have nothin‘ going for me… school, home… until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, because I believe what Paul taught in Galatians that there is no distinction in God’s eyes between men and women, slaves and masters, Jews and non-Jews – everybody is created equally in the eyes of God.

Over a 10-year period, 99 out of 100 new entrepreneurs will fail. Only one will be left standing as others get pushed out of the market or burn out from working so hard. It’s really sad.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone.

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn’t matter how good you are.

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

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.