Far better it is for you to say: "I am a sinner, " than to say: "I have no need of religion." The empty can be filled, but the self-intoxicated have no room for God.

Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.

Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.

Think of the old cliché about the mind being 'an excellent servant but a terrible master'. This, like many clichés, so lame & banal on the surface, actually expresses a great & terrible truth.

Give to grow. Read to lead. Smile to celebrate.

Military life is hard, even cruel—especially for the kids.

Oddly, with discipline, structure, and order, you will find freedom, anything is possible. Without it, locating your saddle may take all morning.

He who makes a garden Works hand in hand with God.

If you ask me what people want from me, they would probably just want me to be true to what I'm doing.

If I say, 'Oh nice,' about seven times in the same show, things aren't going well.

America is ripe for lies and lethargy. The pure mountain air is going and gone. It is a huge burden and a sadness for us all.

Who is there that, in logical words, can express the effect music has on us?

After a year's research, one realizes that it could have been done in a week.