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.

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.

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

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.

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.

People fear nothing as much as boredom and they will do unimaginable things to make it go away.

He would gaze at her with intrigued longan seed eyes.

I feel an extraordinary amount of sympathy for anybody working at a major label right now because their lives are over.

But when you slice truth too thin, you deceive.

And then, in that regal silence, finally - I began to meditate on (and with) God.

My wife and I love to read. Were going to have to move out to make room for the books! And we have our dogs.

One only has to look at the performance of the economy to understand how it shapes the perspective of America's youth about military service.

When the situation is serious, don't be funny; and when the situation is funny, don't be serious!

Nobody's seen all my work. No one. No one in the world has seen all my movies. Some things just never came out... some things may still come out.

I've pretty much run the circle of labels and dealing with that whole kind of battle, because you're the one creating the music, but you're not the final say. That's always been hard.