I wore my same look for six years. My hat and glasses - people recognize me now.
The familiar writer is apt to be his own satirist. Out of his own mouth is he judged.
As men neither fear nor respect what has been made contemptible, all honor to him who makes oppression laughable as well as detestable. Armies cannot protect it then; and walls which have remained impenetrable to cannon have fallen before a roar of laughter or a hiss of contempt.
Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.
God is glorified, not by our groans, but our thanksgivings; and all good thought and good action claim a natural alliance with good cheer.
A large portion of human beings live not so much in themselves as in what they desire to be. They create what is called an ideal character, in an ideal form, whose perfections compensate in some degree for the imperfections of their own.
A thought embodied and embrained in fit words walks the earth a living being.
I'm pursuing soundtrack work in the southern California area and down the line I plan to make a moody, intense acoustic album. Not all acoustic, but an acoustic - oriented guitar record that I've already written most of the material for.
I remember the time I said, 'I don't think you love yourself. You need to learn to love yourself. '
We live in a time of crisis in the secular culture and in the church with regard to the beautiful.
The land of embarrassment and breakfast.