A true Christian man is distinguished from other men, not so much by his beneficent works, as by his patience.

Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves

The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.

Trust in God for great things. With your five loaves and two fishes He will show you a way to feed thousands.

Forgiveness is man's deepest need and highest achievement.

By His trials, God means to purify us, to take away all our self-confidence, and our trust in each other, and bring us into implicit, humble trust in Himself.

However dark our lot may be, there is light enough on the other side of the cloud.

Somewhere under the stars God has a job for you to do and nobody else can do it.

God listens for nothing so tenderly, as when His children help each other by their testimonies to His goodness and the way in which He has brought them deliverance.

Live as with God; and, whatever be your calling, pray for the gift that will perfectly qualify you in it.

It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.

I want to be extraordinarily ordinary. I believe that's the most extraordinary a person can possibly be.

Always seemed to me, as far as conscience goes, the sweet spot is you either be poor enough you can't afford to have one or rich enough you can afford to hire someone to carry the weight.

Some artists claim praise is irrelevant in measuring the success of art, but I think it's quite relevant. Besides, it makes me feel great.

[About a tiresome colleague]: He could bore for Scotland.

When you look at the world, the world isn't just one palette. It's a beautiful rainbow, and why not have someone to represent that rainbow?

As a piece of rope, when burnt, retains its form, but cannot serve to bind, so is the ego which is burnt by the fire of supreme Knowledge.

When I was a graduate student, estimating and interpreting distributed lags topped the agenda of macroeconomists and other applied economists.

We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.

Yeah? For what paper?