I give all the glory to God. It's kind of a win-win situation. The glory goes up to Him and the blessings fall down on me.
For several decades, I believed it was necessary to be extraordinary if you wanted to write, and since I wasn't, I gave up my ambition and settled down to a life of reading.
And as the hour approached for the execution, in his own mind, Collins became both the executioner and the victim. He would pace up and down, transformed in almost a kind of exorcism when he knew he was responsible for taking someone's life.
Psychologists say don't expect your life to be happy all the time. I go with the philosophy that every day can't be tops. Life is not like that - it's up and down.
Early in my songwriting career, when I was learning a lot about writing songs, I'd force myself to sit down until I came up with something.
When I went to prom, I wore my hair down. But I love the idea of a long dress with your hair up. It's just gorgeous.
It's not easy to sit down and open yourself up and say, 'This is how much I love you,' you know? It's scary to do that.
Who on earth can bring you down when God is already lifting you up to receive bigger and bigger blessings?
In pursuit of happiness, smart people often end up dumbing down themselves.
In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down.
Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side.
When you are up against a wall, put down roots like a tree, until clarity comes from deeper sources to see over that wall and grow.
Don't mark up the Library's copy, you fool! Librarians are Unprankable. They'll track you down! They have skills!
Every blade in the field - Every leaf in the forest - lays down its life in its season as beautifully as it was taken up.
I went up to the top of the career ladder and I came down again, I am past all that.
The only thing that preoccupies me is that France has broken down, and we need to start up the engine again - all the way. But not so as to run into a wall.
AOL was a roller coaster ride. I was lucky and privileged to be a part of it, both the ups and the downs.
In the midst of life’s ups and down, beginnings and endings, let us live our life, let us be joyful, let us be happy.
Day becomes week, week becomes month and month becomes year. Never stops, life going on with ups and down, it's our joy and fear.
And there is such a thing as a decathlon high. It's like a rock rolling down hill, picking up momentum. You get better and better.
Coming out of 'Spy Kids,' I immediately wanted to do more grown-up roles, and I was turning down a lot of the kind of younger, cheesier roles.
