The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.

The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.

The smell of the sweat is not sweet, but the fruit of the sweat is very sweet.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

Say what is true, although it may be bitter and displeasing to people

And the sooner you do the right thing, the better. You get it over with, and you don’t have to worry about it anymore. But who does that in real life?

The most rewarding thing of my success has been the ability to use my music for many different causes that have become important to me.

We are not in the business of iron ore. Whatever captive iron ore sources we have, we use it to make steel.

When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.

...God's love is so real that He created you to prove it.

I'm not afraid of anything. That's just the way I am.

Could we know what men are most apt to remember, we might know what they are most apt to do.