Faith must be worked at..

France will always be France no matter what, but America involves striving toward an ideal..

It is in falling down that we learn almost everything that matters spiritually..

When I say history is a matter of life and death, I mean this: If you really don't know history, you are a victim of whatever the authorities tell yo….

Only those of us, I think, who were born under Queen Victoria know what it feels like to assume, without questioning, that England is permanently top….

I don't really like ska..

There's something bad in everything good and something good in everything bad..

You don’t have to beg God; you just have to act upon His Word..

I'm not going to be in a relationship that I don't fully trust..

Always sing below your potential..

No one can go back, but everyone can go forward..

But I think if you treat people well, they embrace you. The other stuff, it just doesn't matter..

You are either going forward or you are not..

I play a whole lot of instruments pretty badly, instead of playing one instrument really well..

The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming..

No one's going to shoot at me..

We don't have time to be sad.

Love changes us, but we change how we love too..

Some bridges you crossed on your own, no matter who drove you to the edge.

When you can't see yourself objectively, you won't see anyone else objectively, either..

Consciousness is not mind; it is the ground of all being, the ground of both matter and mind. Matter and mind are both possibilities of consciousness..