I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.

No, God does not need us to love Him. But oh, how we need to love God! For what we love determines what we seek. What we seek determines what we think and do. What we think and do determines who we are - and who we will become.

Visible Faith is an expression of my Christian faith which must be visible to be real! I gave the name to the collection of musicians who worked with me on the record.

Big-time directors and the studios that bankroll them prefer to dwell in the comfortable, familiar center, where mammon is God and the only divine word comes from focus groups.

Man wants to be reconciled to God; wants to know that the past is forgiven.