Celebrity Quotes

I am most thankful to Almighty Providence for mercies received, and determined still to press the case into public notice as a token of gratitude.

For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial in advanced life, like beans to a horse, whose common ordinary food is hay and corn.

Few men have led a more active life - bodily or mentally - from a constitutional anxiety for regularity, precision, and order, during fifty years' business career, from which I had retired.

Experience has taught me to believe that, these human beans are the most insidious enemies man, with a tendency to corpulence in advanced life, can possess, though eminently friendly to youth.

At one time I thought the Editor of the Lancet would kindly publish a letter from me on the subject, but further reflection led me to doubt whether so insignificant an individual would be noticed without some special introduction.

I am fully persuaded that thousands of our fellow-men might profit equally by a similar course to mine; but, constitutions not being all alike, a different course of treatment may be advisable for the removal of so tormenting an affliction.

There are two ways to go about it. You can take a compass and draw a perfect circle and make two perfect eyes as neat as can be. Or you can do it freehand and have some fun with it. Like I did. Give it character.

I made a circle with a smile for a mouth on yellow paper, because it was sunshiny and bright.

The catch phrase for the day is 'Do an act of kindness. Help one person smile.'

I shop, therefore I am.

I always say shopping is cheaper than a psychiatrist.

You don't have to be dowdy to be a Christian.

I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.

You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.

Why should I apologize because God throws in crystal chandeliers, mahogany floors, and the best construction in the world?

When I first went to prison, I was even questioning where, God, where are you?

To try to raise a son from inside the prison walls is a very difficult thing. But I want to say to the world my son at 16 was the one who tried the most to get me out of prison.

They've all been through bad things. So bad things happen to people. They happen to all the great men of God.

They put chains on me; they chained my waist, my legs. Put me in the back of a squad car, and I literally blacked out. I didn't even - there's whole pieces missing.

The box got bigger, the outside, the buildings. And all that we were doing. I had to raise about $1 million every two days just to stay alive.

My dream became bigger and bigger. And the box got bigger than the message, than the Gospel.

Most of you are so young you don't know who I am, and that's good.

It's not listed in the Bible, but my spiritual gift, my specific calling from God, is to be a television talk-show host.

It was dripping and, you know, and there was a whole line of cameras and microphones. I felt like - you remember the honor guards, only it was a dishonor guard.

In the book of Colossians, it talks about that because of what Christ did, we are pure. We are without judgment on ourselves. And only through him can we do something like this.

I write about it in the book and, you know, explain that. But that was the technicality that actually got my sentence reduced - that Alan Dershowitz used to have my sentence - it came down eventually to eight years.

I think - there's always going to be a percentage of people who maybe aren't as good as others.

I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.

I feel like God has forgiven me of so much, that I will forgive everyone who has hurt us.

I don't know, examination I guess. And then they put the jump suit back on me again. I went through the compound - I remember somebody shouting, Jim don't let them break you.