You dont have to get beat up as many times as I did to come to your senses. Certainly I wish Id come to mine earlier than I did.

It's not what you take when you leave this world behind you. It's what you leave behind you when you go.

In the God of all creation, we put our faith and trust. And give our lives to you, cause you gave your life for us.

There's a darkness that everyone must face, it wants to take what's good and fair and lay it all to waste. And that darkness covers everything in sight, until it meets a single point of light.

My dad wanted me to play when I was a kid, so I learned to play the guitar. I pursued a career in music because I love it so much and I enjoy what it does to those who hear it.

There's forgiveness if you ask forgiveness, you truly repent, and you do make an honest effort not to do that anymore.

There's a constant contradiction between what feels good and what feels right. But you live with decisions that you make in your life.

We are soldiers of the cross, we've been found to reach the lost.

To me, country music tells a story about, and deals with, the way people live their lives and what they do.

Armies gather in the East for the war that's soon to come. Death will march with the mark of the beast, so seek the light and walk with the Son.

I feel like a stone you have picked up and thrown to the hard rock bottom of your heart.

In the home begins the disruption of the peace of the world.

It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.

How can I tell," said the man, "that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensations and my state of mind?

The content of a thought depends on its external relations; on the way that the thought is related to the world, not on the way that it is related to other thoughts.

Life was to be a search, or nothing! But it was the fear that it was nothing that drove me forward. Every encounter was an encounter with myself.

Ramadan is a month whose beginning is Mercy, whose middle is Forgiveness and whose end is Freedom from the fire.

Believing that art is either worth a fortune or worth nothing at all.

More than anything I am a novelist. But for me, an author's job is not only to create linguistically accomplished works. As an author I also want to stimulate discussion.

I ask the Philippines Government to put an end to journalists' killings by giving journalists' safety the priority it deserves.

Our interaction with our friends, for instance, is in large part an interaction with representations in our own head of the people before us. That's why a friend can surprise or disappoint us.