If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

It is only by not paying one’s bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

I had so many people try to talk me out of starting a rocket company, it was crazy.

People define Christianity differently. I think a large portion of our population are Christians, they’re not all growing in their faith, they’re not all active, but I believe that a lot of people believe in Jesus and believe that he is their Lord and Savior.

All of our problems start in our minds.

I have seen how leaders rule by intimidation. Leaders who demonize and dehumanize entire groups of people often do so because they have nothing else to offer. And I have seen how places that stifle the voices and dismiss the potential of their citizens are diminished: how they are less vital, less hopeful, less free.

I’ve got a woman’s ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

Irrespective of whether you have talent or not, one has to work hard. Just being talented doesn’t mean anything; you can end up wasting it before you realize.

I love tattoos. And mine symbolise who I really am. I have a Samurai on my left arm. At a subconscious level, I connect to this warrior and model myself on his discipline, skills and honour. There is also a tribal tattoo and a Chinese symbol of faith. I have seen a lot of people getting tattoos just because it’s a trend.

I don’t intend to stop making music.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.

Myths can’t be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

There’s always a bittersweet kind of thing, but I feel like everything had to work out the way it is. Everything that had to happen, happened.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.

A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

The human body is strange and flawed and unpredictable. The human body has many secrets, and it does not divulge them to anyone, except those who have learned to wait.

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

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

I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another.

As apostles and prophets, we are concerned not only for our children and grandchildren but for yours as well – and for each of God’s children.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

Most of us have hoped and prayed for something to happen a certain way, but it didn’t. And when this happened, we had a choice to make: to react with offense toward God or to trust Him anyway.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

I like to have fun all the time, even if I’m working.

Love of God is not always the same as love of good.

The most positive men are the most credulous.

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

When I was four, my mother insisted I get out of the car and find my own way home. Although I got lost, I did find my way home. It taught me the value of independence at an early age.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

The Pirellis you can push for a couple of laps and then you’ve got to start saving. It’s not easy.

You can’t be happy by doing something groovy.

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

‚Mean‘ is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then it would ruin the next day. And it would level me so many times, I just felt like I was being hit in the face every time this person would take to their computer.

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

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.

I never expected any sort of success with ‚Mockingbird’… I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.

The Bible says today is the accepted time, today is the day of salvation… But there will come a time when it will be too late for you.

There are certain things that bother me and certain things that don’t. Personal attacks on me? I think I’m just so used to it.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

I’ve read the last page of the Bible. It’s all going to turn out all right.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

I think happiness is a goal all of us can agree on. Let’s face it – we all would like to be happy.

I want to tell people about the meaning of the cross.

If I spent all my time criticising myself, I wouldn’t be able to function. There are actors who theorise till the cows come home. I haven’t the patience for them. It’s maybe shallow, but that’s why I’ll never be part of the acting set.

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

I am prepared to resort to anything, to submit to anything, for the sake of the commonwealth.