Our Quotes
The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.
We are all salesmen every day of our lives. We are selling our ideas, our plans, our enthusiasms to those with whom we come in contact.
Where is our acknowledgement of God if our thoughts are fixed on the glamour of our garments?
It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words.
Artists are a very important part of our society because they make a great contribution to our values. The artist creates a value system that we all grow up on, whether we know it or not.
Without a doubt, my richest relationships are my long-term friendships with musical partners, because we make music together. That's what we love to do with our lives.
Every parent has the responsibility to cultivate his child's heart. If we leave our children's heart alone, they tend to become like a garden, overgrown with evil and with sin.
Our love for God and our appreciation of His love and forgiveness will be in proportion to the recognition of our sin and unworthiness.
It is quite time that our children were taught a little more about their country, for shame's sake.
The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none left over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment.
Most of us would protest that of course we love our children without any strings attached. But what counts is how things look from the perspective of the children
We always have to choose to live our lives to the fullest. No one is better or worse than anyone else. We are different and beautiful.
If we truly love God, we will express it by loving our neighbors, and when we truly love our neighbors, it expresses our love for God.
So frequently we mistakenly believe that our children need more things, when in reality their silent pleadings are simply for more of our time.
Each of us, having received several hundred dollars, we passed the time gloriously, spending our money freely - never thinking that our lives were risked gaining it.
When you think about it, we’re all different people all through our lives, and that’s okay, that’s good, you’ve got to keep moving so long as you remember all the people that you used to be.
Fixing our thoughts on Jesus requires time, for true reflection cannot happen with a glance. No one can see the beauty of the country if he hurries through it on the interstate.
Without knowledge and understanding, one tends to become a passive spectator rather than an active participant in the great decisions of our time.
When safety is our priority, we live our lives being very, very careful, and we wind up having no lives
Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no further value to our advancement in virtue.
...there is evidence to suggest that our world and everything in it are also only ghostly images, projections from a level of reality so beyond our own it is literally beyond both space and time.
All of us should be involved in our own futures to create a world that our children will want to live in.
We may have failed to teach our children right from wrong, but we've done a great job of teaching self-esteem!
Our world is facing a refugee crisis of a magnitude not seen since the Second World War. This presents us with great challenges and many hard decisions.
When the state or federal government controls the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens.
Most importantly, the meaning of spirituality lays the seeds for our destiny and the path we must follow.
When we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present ... we experience heaven on earth.
Our biggest enemy is our own self-doubt. We really can achieve extraordinary things in our lives. But we sabotage our greatness because of our fear
There is nothing more mysterious than destiny - of a person, of our species, of our planet, or of the universe itself.
As we respond to the assault of our enemy and defend our country, we must never break international laws. Crime can not be solved by more crime.
I don't think the average American understands what patriotism truthfully is. That's why when I attack our country or attack the government, it's sometimes looked at as unpatriotic. It's not.
For introverts, to be alone with our thoughts is as restorative as sleeping, as nourishing as eating.
Our thoughts, or in other words, our state of mind, is ever at work 'fixing up' things good or bad in advance.
We want to generate the electricity of peace through music, and it’s a thrill to know that the super-creative, enthusiastic musicians of our world are with us to achieve this goal.
That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust.
One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.
Despite everything that Harlem did to our generation, I think it gave something to a few. It gave them a strength that couldn't be obtained anywhere else.