If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.

You get educated by traveling.

If you persist in your purpose of secession, there will be war - a bloody and cruel war. Not only will the North fight, but she will also triumph. The experiment of secession will fail, and the South, in ruin and desolation, will bitterly repent the day when she attempted to overthrow a wise and beneficent government.

God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.

Football shape is one thing, and then 'futbol' shape is a completely other thing. It's a whole other level of fitness that you have to work to maintain.

I liked the name Frog Brigade because it lent itself to a lot of cool imagery with the whole frog thing.

Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage.

I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.

I've been fired five times for having a bad attitude.

We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.

Dream study impacts culture. We are put in touch with the inner poet who dreams. We hear our inner, subjective response to the outer world. That helps spiritualize our lives.

The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.

On Christmas, my family and I see a movie and go out for Chinese food. We don't celebrate Christmas in the traditional sense, in that we do not actually celebrate Christmas.

Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.

Music - it's the only thing that can enter your system, your mind, your heart, without your permission.

I don't pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages.

I know acts and I'm not going to name names but these people sold ten million copies the first time and the second album sells three million and it's considered a failure and they're dropped and that's really a shame.