It is dangerous to make everybody go forward by the same road: and worse to measure others by oneself.

Let us work as if success depended upon ourselves alone but with heartfelt conviction that we are doing nothing and God everything.

This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

It's all these young country bucks doing Skynyrd songs, which is pretty cool to us.

I loved making Pure Country. It was a great learning experience for me, seeing another part of the entertainment industry.

The idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naïve.

I wanted to sound new and exciting - the punk movement was over with for me.

So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it.

When you can give without expecting anything in return, you have mastered the art of living.

How much filth there is in the church, even among those who, in the priesthood, should belong entirely to Him. How much pride, how much self-sufficiency.

History is a realm in which human freedom and natural necessity are curiously intermingled.