The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
There's always pain around. That's one thing you can guarantee in life - there will always be a surplus of pain.
If you got a trumpet, get on your feet, brother, and blow it!
I think there is a certain perversity in my music in that I continue, you know, to eat at the same ball of vomit year after year.
Out of sorrow entire worlds have been built out of longing great wonders have been willed they're only little tears darling let them spill and lay your head upon my shoulder.
It's a wonderful life if you can find it.
I love America. I really do. It's by far the place I like visiting out of anywhere in the world. I get a palpable sense of excitement when the plane's landing. It's a cliché, but there's still an incredible energy about New York in particular.
Everyone talks about religious liberty, but no one believes it. So let us be blunt about it: we must use the doctrine of religious liberty to gain independence for Christian schools until we train up a generation of people who know that there is no religious neutrality, no neutral law, no neutral education, and no neutral civil government. Then they will get busy in constructing a Bible-based social, political, and religious order which finally denies the religious liberty of the enemies of God.
People ask me all the time, 'How can I become a successful entrepreneur?' And I have to be honest: It's one of my least favorite questions, because if you're waiting for someone else's advice to become an entrepreneur, chances are you're not one.
What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
When you speak to a man or a woman about money, they will use water visualizations. For men, it typically is a river. Money comes in; money goes out. The level rises; the level sinks. For women, when you talk about money, to her. . . it's a pond. It's a set amount. She husbands it, and it typically goes in one direction. . . which is down.