When someone sings his own praises, he always gets the tune too high.

Grandchildren are God's way of compensating us for growing old.

It's important that people know what you stand for. It's equally important that they know what you won't stand for.

A laugh is a smile that bursts.

When someone sings his own praises, he always gets the tune too high.

Grandchildren are Gods way of compensating us for growing old.

I have learned that I will not pay any attention to anything people say about my movies, because people say things that are all over the place.

Everybody is great when things are great. It's the 'not great' stuff that matters.

No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.

There are two words for everything.

If someone is very upper-class, you have a stereotype of him which is probably true. If someone has a working-class accent, you have no idea who you're talking to.

Perhaps that is why the novel flourished in England. You had these communities that would stay put and people would see one another all the time and cause one another to change and have the opportunity to observe the changes over time.

We all have a responsibility, and since I've been so wonderfully blessed, I really want to share and to make life at least a little better. So every chance I get to share the gospel or uplift people, I will take full advantage of that opportunity.

People need to understand that the Lauryn Hill they were exposed to in the beginning was all that was allowed in that arena at the time. I had to step away for the sake of the machine. I was being way too compromised. I felt uncomfortable having to smile in someone's face when I really didn't like them or know them well enough to like.

I'm aware that I can be annoying.

Consistency is a contraceptive it prevents the birth of new things

Every generation looks at literature through the lens of their own experience, but with the Bible, everyone gets apprehensive and thinks it'll be too stuffy.

I will be the first to admit that the sanctity of life and the preservation of religious freedom are not even among the top ten concerns of most voters. But those issues should be of primary importance to those who call themselves Christians.

My parents had job jars because my father would say, 'Kids today have too much time, too much money and no responsibility. You're going to have no time, no money and a lot of responsibility.'

Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.

No one individual vote, no one individual quote or no one individual statement defines me, my beliefs, or my record.

A small pepperoni pizza on a tortilla is healthier than salmon teriyaki with rice and carrots.

Everything comes out in blues music joy pain struggle . Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance.

No one can make us feel inferior without our consent.

I haven't slept for ten days, because that would be too long.

I was never pretty, never really popular. I was lanky and funny looking.

Always be suspicious of conclusions that reinforce uncritical hope and follow comforting traditions of Western thought.

Triceratops is very common: they are the cows of the Cretaceous; they are everywhere.

A collection is not just one basic idea. It comes from something that is in the air, something you suddenly like and put down on paper and then work out.

I don't have doctrinaire views about how we should relate to Asia. But novelists reflect the world they live in, and that world propels you, to some extent. I'm a creature of the British Empire, and of the period of transition from the Empire.