A good thing to have up your sleeve is a sanctified funny-bone.

If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.

Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell, I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of Hell.

Funds are low again, hallelujah! That means God trusts us and is willing to leave His reputation in our hands.

How little chance the Holy Ghost has nowadays. The churches and missionary societies have so bound Him in red tape that they practically ask Him to sit in a corner while they do the work themselves.

Christ wants not nibblers of the possible, but grabbers of the impossible.

True religion is like the smallpox. If you get it, you give it to others and it spreads.

Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

The light that shines farthest shines brightest nearest home.

Cease your insults to God, quit consulting flesh and blood. Stop your lame, lying, and cowardly excuses. Enlist!

Prayer is good; but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is nothing but a blatant hypocrisy... Don't hedge! Time flies! ... Enlist!

Question everything, unless it's the answer

In the end, every person's life is a tough act to follow.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old seek what they sought.

Important lessons: look carefully; record what you see. Find a way to make beauty necessary; find a way to make necessity beautiful.

I love it when the market reacts naturally to events. It's like a cat coughing up a fur ball.

You can make a little thing feel like a big thing. To me, it's all tone. Tone is the most important thing in the world. Then character, then story, or something like that.

I was very ill at ease with people in social situations, and I realized that if I photographed I wouldn't have to chat.

Where there is no longer any opportunity for doubt, there is no longer any opportunity for faith either.

I don't think there is a woman in her 40s who doesn't, kind of, examine herself in the mirror.

If no one consumes these products, people will stop roducing them. They will not build it if you didn't come.