Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.

Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.

I even found it difficult to watch myself playing on TV because I couldn’t identify with the person on the screen. I couldn’t get to grips with it. It was as if it was all happening to someone else.

Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

Winning the title in England is the biggest challenge of them all.

Our faith is released as we say, pray and do the Word.

I like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance.

I feel like my message is to let people know that God is a good God, that He’s on their side, and no matter what happens, He has a great plan for them.

I suppose for a very long time I’ve been trying to understand how it is that people might make sense out of their lives and make meaning and make their lives meaningful in the face of the trouble that life brings.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.

Faith crosses every border and touches every heart in every nation.

Let us read and let us dance – two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.

Aim for the highest.

After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Not being afraid to be wrong – I had to learn how to do that.

There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What’s the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.

As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

We are wiser than we know.

I hope my story inspires everyone out there to keep hustling and chasing their dreams.

The reason that I’m here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That’s my truth.

Nothing is more dangerous to one’s own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate.

We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

There’s hope for everyone. That’s what makes the world go round.

It’s very hard to find your own words – and you don’t actually exist until you have your own words.

One element of Madonna’s career that really takes center stage is how many times she’s reinvented herself. It’s easier to stay in one look, one comfort zone, one musical style. It’s inspiring to see someone whose only predictable quality is being unpredictable.

If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.

I was raised to be independent.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

I’m a whopping 5 foot 4 inches tall. I’m not going to get any taller.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.

The work is the work. The work is not me.

Real life is the life that’s in you, not your circumstances, like where you live or what job you have or who you’re in relationship with.

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

It is easier to stay out than get out.

Don’t be afraid to see what you see.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

Even if my songs are quite sad or quite dark, I don’t want my songs to make people sad. It’s very important for me that all my songs have some kind of hope or light.

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up.

There’s no one way to be creative. Any old way will work.

It’s hard to be clear about who you are when you are carrying around a bunch of baggage from the past. I’ve learned to let go and move more quickly into the next place.

The mind of a 19-year-old is very different from the mind of a 26-year-old. You grow. You get into better relationships. You experience more, meet more people, better people. But when you’re in a dark hole at an earlier point in your life – you write about the mindset you’re in at that moment.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Libraries raised me.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take ten forward.