"As a personality, I'm not one that likes to be center stage. It's not about me, it's about the music. I just want people to listen."

“I can't do big things, but I want everything to be for the glory of God.”

“I believe that it is of the utmost importance that we all should feel and inculcate among the people and circulate amongst them what I call a sense of compatriotism. We should all feel that we are all nationals of one country, whatever our race, colour, creed, or sect.”

“In life you need either inspiration or desperation.”

“The need for a quick, satisfactory copying machine that could be used right in the office seemed very apparent to me-there seemed such a crying need for it-such a desirable thing if it could be obtained. So I set out to think of how one could be made.”

“The work that is done in love loses half its tedium and difficulty.”

Source : Thomas Guthrie (1856). “The Gospel in Ezekiel”, p.365

“Be vary wary of people who declare that they're going to create heaven on earth, they almost invariably create hell.”

Source : François Lelord (2010). “Hector and the Search for Happiness”, p.87, Gallic Books

“I got a lot of paradoxes in my life. I guess I'm a real confused person, but there are some focused parts to my life now, and I'm slowly trying to put all the pieces back together.”

“The accumulation of small, optimistic acts produces quality in our culture and in your life. Our culture resonates in tense times to individual acts of grace.”

Source : Jennifer James (1986). “Success Is the Quality of Your Journey”, William Morrow Paperbacks