I am a fan of today's sound as long as we don't get too slick, and yet I am very reverent of my roots.
It is not light they need but strength, and strength permeates through the external balm of words and good example.
Be acted upon rather than active. In this way, God will do through you alone what all men put together could not do without Him.
Indeed, good is not good if one does not suffer in doing it.
Rarely is any good done without difficulty; the devil is too subtle and the world too corrupt not to attempt to nip such a good work in the bud
God always gives a great blessing to humble beginnings than to those that start with the chiming of bells.
Noise makes no good, good makes no noise.
For any kind of reading I think better than leaving a blank still a blank, because the mind must receive a degree of enlargement and obtain a little strength by a slight exertion of its thinking powers; besides, even the productions that are only addressed to the imagination, raise the reader a little above the gross gratification of appetites, to which the mind has not given a shade of delicacy.
Superstition is a quality that seems indigenous to the ocean.
The good thing about being gay, though, I always believed, is that you didn't make anyone go to a wedding. Nobody wants to go to a wedding. Nobody. It kind of bothers me now that you have to go to gay weddings, too. I don't care. It's still a wedding. And I would give anybody double gifts if they would elope.
There was a time in my life that I may not have been that nice, and now I'm in a position to contribute to the education of young people, and teach them to be compassionate, be more loving, more caring, to not use profanity, to not pollute the environment - these are things that I address in my photography. I