The secret of all greatness is to discover what you were born to do in life and then do it. You must find out your gifts and talents.

Another distraction that deviates people from their God given purpose and calling is the distraction of job and formal education.

Solitude with God is a place for pregnancy.

Solitude with God is a place for pregnancy. Solitude is also a place to receive great ideas and creative ideas from God. The power of imagination is strongest in the place of solitude.

You can come into the rest of God through solitude.

It is a great thing to be able to make God your source and the time of solitude presents you with that opportunity.

God has made the provision for every man on earth to be equally endowed.

Every human being is equally wealthy according to God’s divine providence.

We are products of their wisdom or lack of wisdom.

This ignorance of what to do with time is the number one reason why people get bored so easily when alone with nothing to do.

The world gives a way to the man who knows where he is going.

I realized then that all of the problems in my life that I thought were unsolvable were in fact solvable—except for having just jumped.

People sometimes talk about the power of first impressions, and believe me, there is truth to it.

People understand God as the expression of the most lofty morality. Maybe He needs only perfect people.

Clearly, things are definitely changing in big ways as far as the way we consume music, listen to music, and what we expect from music.

the most elementary experience of life proves that the effects of compulsion last exactly as long as the physical or moral club can be applied.

Moral truth, resting entirely upon the ascertained consequences of actions, supposes a process of observation and reasoning.

No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.

I beat myself up in the studio because I know that a lot of people are expecting me to fail.

In life's journey, you will meet all sorts of characters. Always remember, never shed a tear for the heartless, corrupt or insensitive.

A novel, basically, is writing one sentence — then, without violating the scope of the first one, writing the next sentence.