Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

Mr. T. been to chemo, Mr. T been to radiation, hair fall out… but he’s back. Now I can give hope when I go to the hospital, see the sick kids with cancer, tell them, don’t quit.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you’re a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

I will be unhappy if I know I have not accomplished something I should have done that was possible.

Everybody has a purpose.

The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.

I never go into a situation with any type of expectations.

There is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship; nothing that can satisfy but Christ.

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

Cast away your sloth, your lethargy, your coldness, or whatever interferes with your chaste and pure love for Christ, your soul’s husband. Make Him the source, the center, and the circumference of all your soul’s range of delight.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

There are two great forces, God’s force of good and the devil’s force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don’t understand.

A shady business never yields a sunny life.

The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.

I’m a songwriter. Everything affects me.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

I am a Christian, and the Bible teaches me to forgive.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

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

You can be happy where you are.

What you are comes to you.

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

If you’re not careful to think and speak words of faith, worry will creep in, and it will not only steal your peace and joy, it will steal your ‚today.‘ The present is the greatest gift God ever gives us. So hold on to the peace that’s yours in Christ. Don’t let it go.

In prayer, we stand where angels bow with veiled faces. There, even there, the cherubim and seraphim adore before that selfsame throne to which our prayers ascend. And shall we come there with stunted requests and narrow, contracted faith?

God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

You’re dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

The last thing the devil wants you to do is be an obedient Christian.

Mostly, my flying has been solo, but the preparation for it wasn’t. Without my husband’s help and encouragement, I could not have attempted what I have. Ours has been a contented and reasonable partnership, he with his solo jobs and I with mine. But always with work and play together, conducted under a satisfactory system of dual control.

It doesn’t matter who you are – if you dream big and if you work really hard, you can achieve unimaginable results, and that’s really good for the nation.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

Fear clogs; faith liberates.

I love imperfections.

You know, T can stand for anything. T stand for working hard. T stand for loving thy neighbor. T stand for feeding the hungry. T stand for just working, working, working, being happy on the set, you know, lifting everybody’s spirits. T stands for just a nice guy.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.

Nothing endures but change.

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

Christianity is a lifestyle. And being a Christian is more than a label.

I teach children to be winners.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

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

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

I know I got angels watchin me from the other side.

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

I wanted to use my fame and this face that everyone knows so well to help uplift and inspire people around the world.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Let not a libation of tears be the only offering at the shrine of Jesus; let us also rejoice with joy unspeakable. If we have need to lament our sin, how much more to rejoice at our pardon!

Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn’t write, I would stop breathing.

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

Only when Christ comes again will the little white children of Alabama walk hand in hand with little black children.

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.