There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful

Of Course God does not consider you hopeless. If He did, He would not be moving you to seek Him (and He obviously is)... Continue seeking Him with seriousness. Unless He wanted you, you would not be wanting Him.

C.S. Lewis

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Theodore Rubin

The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history.

Kim Il-sung

Father, in spite of all this spending of money in learning Latin, I will be a painter.

William Allan

Well, I am a lot like my dad, and the character of Ted is based on my dad.

Max Cannon

There's the risk of being loved...and that would keep me from being happy.

Albert Camus

No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

Walter Bagehot

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

Rudyard Kipling

Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.

Paul Simon

What we don't need in country music is divisiveness, public criticism of each other, and some arbitrary judgement of what belongs and what doesn't.

Charley Pride

Democracy give every man the right to be his own oppressor.

James Russell Lowell

My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul.

Michel de Montaigne