Few can tell what they know without also showing what they do not know.

For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.

To go through life without love is to travel through the world in a carriage with closed windows.

As the sea is beautiful not only in calm but also in storm, so is happiness found not only in peace but also in strife.

For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.

The wise man hath his thoughts in his head; the fool, on his tongue.

Men are willing to admit that they are sinners, but not that they are sinning.

The furnace which melts gold, also hardens clay. Before blaming thy fate, therefore, find whether thou art gold or clay.

Love is not like the echo, which returneth only what is given; but, rather, like the pump, which returneth by the pail what it received by the pint.

A half-truth does more mischief than a whole lie.

The small charity that comes from the heart is better than the great charity that comes from the head.

So much of war is sitting around and doing nothing, waiting for somebody else. With no guarantee of the amount of time you have left it doesn't seem worth even starting a train of thought.

I must be getting absent-minded. Whenever I complain that things aren't what they used to be I always forget to include myself.

Amazingly, I've been sort of an anomaly in the music industry. I feel like I've been able to exist as kind of a throwback artist.

Writing anything is a treason of sorts.

I decided I would never do interviews again.

The confession of the authority of the Word of God can never be isolated from the saving content of the Word of God.

The man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.

But your mind is warped by an innate principle of general integrity, and, therefore, not accessible to the cool reasonings of family partiality, or a desire of revenge.

I have said many times that I wish there was no oil in the Middle East, and more water. People would have been much happier than they are right now.

Go for the moon. If you don't get it, you'll still be heading for a star.