Martin Luther

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.

It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.

I was raised in the Baptist church... but I didn't really have a real committed experience with Christ until my father died.

When the writers themselves are a bit out of control, and their lives are collapsing around them, they seem to rejoice in misery and celebrate the wrong sort of things.