“Whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through Him to God the Father.”

There are two types of teachers. The ones who teach you to use the text to find answers, and the ones who teach you to use the text to find another whole world of answers.

An artist’s job is to inspire, from the Latin inspirare: to breathe into. The primary function of art is to inspire new thought shaped by emotions using the creative mediums we master – be it painting, music, design, craft, or photography.

We do not spontaneously learn that we don’t learn that we don’t learn.

Love is the greatest and most excellent thing we are masters of and therefore it is folly and baseness to bestow it unworthily. It is indeed the only thing we can call our own: other things may be taken from us by violence, but none can ravish our love.

Moreover, as I was still in the prime of life, it pleased me better to be up and doing.

I was stubborn and refused to chase, I threw my ego away and chased; it does not matter. Some people are just not meant to be.

If you obey the majority of those on earth, they will lead you astray from God’s way. They follow nothing but conjecture. They are only guessing.

The trouble is that we live far from ourselves and have but little wish to get any nearer to ourselves. Indeed we are running away all the time to avoid coming face to face with our real selves, and we barter the truth for trifles.

All beings tremble before danger, all fear death. When a man considers this, he does not kill or cause to kill.

The distance between who I am, and who I want to be is measure only, by my actions.

The sun was a pewter coin in a leaden sky.

Act as though the maxim of your action were to become, through your will, a universal law of nature.

God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

The grasses toss and shimmy. The horses nicker. Madame Manec says, almost whispering, Now that I think about it, child, I expect heaven is a lot like this.

Let not the wise disturb the mind of the unwise in their selfish work. Let him, working with devotion, show them the joy of good work.

For some reason I think I could have been capable of great evil. Maybe that’s the guilt.

Meryl Streep belongs on anybody’s list of greats.

I don’t know why you people [the press] like to compare me to Marilyn or that girl, what’s her name, Kim Novak. Cleavage, of course, helped me a lot to get where I am. I don’t know how they got there.

May I ask your name, my lady? Or perhaps angels have no names, only beautiful faces.

Call me reckless, call me hopeless, say it to me, implore. Call me feckless, call me helpless, call me all those things and more. All I ask if that you heed the one good reason you’re ignored. Judge me all you like, its not you I do this for.

My father told me ‘Name your price in the beginning. If it ever gets more expensive than the price you name, get out of there.’

No artist that beefs with me or talks down on my name has that many platinum songs. They’re all gold.

It wasn’t necessary to speak on the recession, you know what I mean, but I just though it made a lot of sense. I was like, “okay, cool,” I’m going to go with this approach for the name of the album [ The Recession].

I want my first son to be called ‘Tommy.’ It will sound great, Tommy Tomlinson