If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach.
It may be proper to observe, that I had now passed the utmost frontier of the white settlements on that border.
The longer we were in it, the smaller it seemed to get.
To be a naturalist is better than to be a king.
I felt a little uncomfortable because, when I went in to the military, I was the main male vocalist they had and when I came out they had like two or three vocalists. Otis came in when I was in the military, too.
The first song that I wrote was when I was with The Del Rios. I was like 14 years old but I was always putting my thoughts down on paper even before then because it was like an escape - a way of unleashing all the stuff.
We worked over at that place The Plantation Inn with The Del Rios. It was really wild over there.
I stayed with them for about a year up there and, at night, worked over in Long Island at a club called The High Hat Club which was like a pseudo jazz / blues place.
A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.
The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed.
Now we have reason to be grateful once again that Al Gore is not the man in the White House, and never will be.
For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.
Give yourself an even greater challenge than the one you are trying to master and you will develop the powers necessary to overcome the original difficulty.
If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic.
Advertising doesn't create a product advantage. It can only convey it.
Properly practiced creativity must result in greater sales more economically achieved. Properly practiced creativity can lift your claims out of the swamp of sameness and make them accepted, believed, persuasive, urgent.
You can say the right thing about a product and nobody will listen. You've got to say it in such a way that people will feel it in their gut. Because if they don't feel it, nothing will happen.
Nobody counts the number of ads you run; they just remember the impression you make.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
We don't ask research to do what it was never meant to do, and that is to get an idea.
Scratch a pessimist and you find often a defender of privilege.
