If you are joyful, do not worry about lukewarmness. Joy will shine in your eyes and in your look, in your conversation and in your countenance. You will not be able to hide it because joy overflows.

The body's ills are the least of ills, for they end only in death, which is but a little thing. But if the spirit dies, then all is lost.

An idle mind is a devil’s workshop and I am prone to renting out my mind to the first bidder.

We have to live within the framework of our limitations and the mistakes we make. Argue with Destiny, but never try to wrestle it into submission. If you do, you’ll end up losing.

What we do not make conscious emerges later as fate.

As soon as I began, it seemed impossible to write fast enough – I wrote faster than I would write a letter – two thousand to three thousand words in a morning, and I cannot help it.

My father pulled into Pearl Harbor four days after the bombing, and he said, everything was still burning. He said they never told the public how bad it was. It was really bad.

Where feelings for God are dead, worship is dead.

I have a radar built inside me to avoid punches

To see itself through, music must have idea or magic. ... Music with neither dies young though rich.

The economic downturn is our wake-up call to slow down, consume less, help each other, & live more!