A disciplined conscience is a man's best friend. It may not be his most amiable, but it is his most faithful monitor.

Are you living for the things you are praying for?

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

We are never more like Christ than in prayers of intercession.

We never feel Christ to be a reality, until we feel Him to be a necessity

Christianity is the only system of faith which combines religious beliefs with corresponding principles of morality. It builds ethics on religion.

We never feel Christ to be a reality, until we feel Him to be a necessity.

America, now is not the time for small plans.

I was very, very into animation when I was growing up. The Simpsons is still my favorite show. I have a really strong connection to it.

There is certainly a part of my filmmaking that harkens to a more simpler commercial kind of taste, but then with this theres certainly a kind of avant-garde, abstract, existential element to it.

There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.

A gentleman's park is my aversion. It is not beauty because it is not nature.

I always befriended animals and have said many a good word for them. Even to the least-loved mosquitoes I gave many a meal, and told them to go in peace.

They took all the trees and put them in a tree museum.

Self-deception is sometimes as necessary a tool as a crowbar.

There just comes a time when it's so clear that moving on is the best decision.

If you want to know where I come by the passionate commitment I have to bringing people together without regard to race, it all started with my grandfather.