"Writing songs about fancying people in dance clubs is all very well but it's not the be-all and end-all. There are other topics."

“All those commodities are going to have to rise in value as we are in short supply and we are printing too much money.”

“What I can't understand is, how can anybody figure now that the government can support us, when we support the government.”

“I always admired atheists. I think it takes a lot of faith.”

“To say what we should be or do and not link it with a clear exposition of what God has done about our failure to be or do perfectly as He wills is to reject the grace of God and to lead people to lust after self-help and self-improvemen t in a way that, to call a spade a spade, is godless.”

“Man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are turned to discords.”

“I wanted to tell the book thief many things, about beauty and brutality. But what could I tell her about those things that she didn't already know? I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race-that rarely do I ever simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.”

Source : Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.550, RH Childrens Books

“I see not a step before me as I tread on another year;But I've left the Past in God's keeping,-the FutureHis mercy shall clear;And what looks dark in the distance may brighten as I draw near.”

Source : "Not Knowing". The Congregationalist; set to music as a hymn by Philip Paul Bliss in the 1870s, as quoted in "Glimpses of Christian History Presents More Stories: Blessed Bliss" (2007) by Thomas Corts, March 1869.

“The only difference is now more young black men are in the spotlight.”