We are members of a vast cosmic orchestra, in which each living instrument is essential to the complementary and harmonious playing of the whole.

I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.

It isn't how you die. It's what you live for.

All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

The religion I have to love and fear God, believe in Jesus Christ, do all the good to my neighbor, and myself that I can, do as little harm as I can help, and trust on God's mercy for the rest.

A zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few men to attack a powerful army of experienced warriors.

Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.

I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.

In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.

Heaven must be a Kentucky kind of place.

Fear is the spice that makes it interesting to go ahead.

Everything you can imagine is real.

God is Maker of heaven and earth.

The tides are in our veins, we still mirror the stars, life is your child, but there is in meOlder and harder than life and more impartial, the eye that watched before there was an ocean.

I believe in women helping each other feel good about themselves instead of trying to compete.

As long as there will be something to conquer, world peace will be a pipe dream

I know I am talking nonsense, but I’d rather go rambling on, and partly expressing something I find it difficult to express, than to keep on transmitting faultless platitudes.

I always ask myself: "Did I get one percent better today?"

Our business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living, and art can help this.

You were my hope during my days of loneliness, my anxiety during moments of doubt, my certainty during moments of faith.

You can't trust folk songs. They always sneak up on you.