Gospel music to me has always been a balm for the soul. It has been able to usher in the spirit, usher in worship, true worship and praise, healing. I find the music to be very good at healing and the passion, you know, which is a testimony being told in song.
Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.
I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person’s life. God is in everyone’s life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else – God is in this person’s life. You can – you must – try to seek God in every human life.
It seems that I have always been ahead of my time. I had to wait nineteen years before Niagara was harnessed by my system, fifteen years before the basic inventions for wireless which I gave to the world in 1893 were applied universally.
Freedom has never been free.
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
I am overwhelmed with all the love, affection, and warmth that I have been receiving for ‘Dheere Dheere.’ It is one of my most special works, and I am glad that so many million hearts have taken to it in such a manner.
I’ve always been a bit of a gypsy.
If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
Anytime I’ve been photographed with a glass of champagne in my hand, it’s really Red Bull.
I grew up in East Germany, so we had to learn Russian in school… everybody hated it. I never thought it would come in handy… And being an actor, I’ve been able to use it quite a bit.
I’ve never been reckless – it’s always calculated. I’m mischievous, but I’m calculated.
If you find the mirror of the heart dull, the rust has not been cleared from its face.
Music’s always been really cathartic. It’s the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.
I think the greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.
My attitude has always been, if you fall flat on your face, at least you’re moving forward. All you have to do is get back up and try again.
We have but one flag, one country; let us stand together. We may differ in color, but not in sentiment. Many things have been said about me which are wrong, and which white and black persons here, who stood by me through the war, can contradict.
I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired to be the literature not only of a new continent but of a New World.
I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.
My kids are my No. 1 priority. They’re the light in my everyday life. The sunshine. The miracle. Those eyes. Those smiles. At the same time, I have an extended, amazing family that is my audience. All these people have been with me for such a long time. I have these two responsibilities.
In my conscience, I believe that my heart has been so oft on fire that it is absolutely vitrified.
It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity.
I have been a systems engineer, systems administrator, a senior adviser for the Central Intelligence Agency, a solutions consultant and a telecommunications information systems officer.
I am just pitifully nostalgic. I can’t help but roll my eyes at myself frequently. I mean, I still shoot black-and-white film. And I am constantly reminiscing about the ‘good old days.’ I’m 28 years old. There haven’t even been that many ‘good old days.’ But still, I love to look back.
The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.
There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.
A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you’ve been taking.
I’ve been an entrepreneur and venture capitalist in the cryptocurrency industry for a long time, working with numerous projects.
I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.
My whole life has been one big improvisation.
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
I didn’t want to be selling insurance at 40, wondering what would it have been like to do stand-up.
I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful, that when we grasp it – in a decade, a century, or a millennium – we will all say to each other, how could it have been otherwise? How could we have been so stupid?
Information helps you to see that you’re not alone. That there’s somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who all have wept, who’ve all longed and lost, who’ve all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you’re not really any different from everyone else.
With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
It’s so beautifully arranged on the plate – you know someone’s fingers have been all over it.
When you get something for nothing, you just haven’t been billed for it yet.
What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.
Once someone has spent enough time cultivating bad habits and biding their time, they are much diminished. Much of what they could have been has dissipated.
I have said that propaganda, misinformation, and disinformation have always been part of political warfare. Social media and other new platforms have given it a new life and reach through which the fake news phenomenon can reach everywhere.
We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be.
Time and health are two precious assets that we don’t recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.
If a conservative is a liberal who’s been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who’s been arrested.
The best part of being with the Warriors has been the team camaraderie, the team meals, the team pranks, the bond we share.
If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.
I’ve never been a jealous person, and I’ve never felt built up by someone else’s failure – that’s a cheap thrill.
Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it’s not unfamiliar to you. It’s always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
Just do what you want to do, and who cares what people think. That’s always been my thing.
No, I’m not a vegetarian. I do eat that way. I actually eat vegan quite a lot. I feel better when I eat that way, and I think there’s been a lot of proof that’s come up over the last however many years, that you can’t deny, I don’t think, that meat or dairy aren’t all that good for us.
Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.
Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay, and I don’t ever want to finish second again. There is a second place bowl game, but it is a game for losers played by losers. It is and always has been an American zeal to be first in anything we do, and to win, and to win, and to win.
The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.
We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.
I see possibilities in everything. For everything that’s taken away, something of greater value has been given.
Although slavery may have been abolished, the crippling poison of racism still persists, and the struggle still continues.
One of the great cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our experience. When we hold something, anything, in our thought, then somehow coincidence leads us in the direction that we’ve been wishing to lead ourselves.
It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
I’m lucky to have been raised in the most beautiful place – Amherst, Massachusetts, state of my heart. I’m more patriotic to Massachusetts than to almost any place.
