Your value does not decrease based on someone's inability to see your worth.

We can only keep what we have by being willing to freely give it away; a paraphrase of Jesus Christ.

Best smiles come after the toughest time.

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

If God is for us, who can be against us?

If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

Why not learn to enjoy the little things-there are so many of them.

Remember the past, plan for the future, but live for today, because yesterday is gone and tomorrow may never come.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

God helps those who help themselves.

Courage sometimes skips a whole generation

There is no substitute for your impassioned prayers on behalf of your children

Taking the time to reflect on how you arrived at where you are today can have a massive impact on what your life will be like tomorrow.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

What's important is not just to develop the technology; it's to develop the processes.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God's name is Abraxas.

We only see what we want to see, and hear what we want to hear

Without literature my life would be miserable.

There are so many great songwriters that I love and respect, it's an honor to get the opportunity to sing any of their songs.