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

When everything works best, it’s not because you chose writing but because writing chose you. It’s when you’re mad with it, it’s when it’s stuffed in your ears, your nostrils, under your fingernails. It’s when there’s no hope but that.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

I only type every third night. I have no plan. My mind is a blank. I sit down. The typewriter gives me things I don’t even know I’m working on. It’s a free lunch. A free dinner. I don’t know how long it is going to continue, but so far there is nothing easier than writing.

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

I’ve made money, and I’ve been ripped off. I’ve had creative freedom, and I’ve been pressured to make hits. I have dealt with diva behavior from crazy musicians, and I have seen genius records by wonderful artists get completely ignored. I love music. I always will.

A home without books is a body without soul.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It’s the same with me and writing.

That’s the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God – so do I buy that one? If all the other cliches are true… Hell, don’t pose me that one.

It take many a year, mon, and maybe some bloodshed must be, but righteousness someday prevail.

It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart.

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

My faith was tested like Job. That’s the message I try to tell other people: just because you believe in God, serve God, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, people gotta realize, it don’t mean things not gonna happen to you.

In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.

I love the song ‚I Hope You Dance‘ by Lee Ann Womack. I was going to write that song, but someone beat me to it.

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you’ve got to let it grow.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

This industry has been really good to me. It’s been a great life. I’m not through yet. I’m ready when you are, Mr. DeMille.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‚Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.

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

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

I don’t spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that’s how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.

Not one person can make or break what I’m doing, except me or God.

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

The bravest person I’ve ever met was a young boy going through massive amounts of treatment for a very rare, complex and unpleasant disease. I last saw him at a Discworld convention, where he chose to take part in a game as an assassin. He died not long afterwards, and I wish I had his fortitude and sense of style.

Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?

When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you’d been the only man in the world.

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.

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

My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.

I’ve been fortunate to have had the life I had prior to Hollywood. I wasn’t starving; I was going to eat the next day.

It usually helps me write by reading – somehow the reading gear in your head turns the writing gear.

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I’m borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.

I grew up in a rural area called Vega Baja and I’m the first of so many talented people in this area to make it out. I take great pride to represent where I come from and I am able to show my fans, and everyone who listens and watches me, that anything is possible.

Find new ways to spread the word of God to every corner of the world.

Start with God – the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

Life is anything but predictable.

Nothing reflects so much honor on a workman as a trial of his work and its endurance of it. So it is with God. It honors Him when His saints preserve their integrity.

A word after a word after a word is power.