"Expect the best and people will rise to the occasion."

“Leadership has less to do with position than it does with disposition.”

“May I say that I approve of a piece that tries to remake the entire puzzle?”

“The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food. Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.”

Source : William Winwood Reade (1874). “The Martyrdom of Man”, p.394

“After I left Texas and went to California, I had a hard time getting anyone to play anything that I was writing, so I had to end up playing them myself. And that's how I ended up just being a saxophone player.”

“Each of us has to face the matter—either the Church is true, or it is a fraud. There is no middle ground. It is the Church and kingdom of God, or it is nothing.”

“A lot of people say, well how can a loving God send anyone to hell? First of all God doesn't send anyone to hell. If we go to hell, it's by our own choice. But when somebody says to me, how can a loving God allow anyone to go to hell, I'll turn around and say, "Well how can a holy, just, righteous God allow sin into His presence?"”

“I would fain die a dry death.”

“I always feel like one of the guys and very unintimidated.”