Be methodical if you would succeed in business, or in anything. Have a work for every moment, and mind the moment's work.

The difficulties, hardships and trials of life, the obstacles... are positive blessings. They knit the muscles more firmly, and teach self-reliance.

The same disappointments in life will chasten and refine one man's spirit, embitter another's.

The smallest thing, well done, becomes artistic.

One well-cultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth one hundred shallow faculties.

Unless a man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him ridiculous.

As frost, raised to its utmost intensity, produces the sensation of fire, so any good quality, overwrought and pushed to excess, turns into its own contrary.

The petty cares, the minute anxieties, the infinite littles which go to make up the sum of human experience, like the invisible granules of powder, give the last and highest polish to a character.

Criminals are opportunists. If you've got a booming market, they're going to get away with more fraud.

The power of music that poetry lacks is the ability to persuade without argument.

The easiest way for me to lose interests is to know too much of what I want to say before I begin.

Prejudicial attitude toward each other in a team is an obstacle in the way to unity

There is always something about the villains that I'm able to play, quote unquote, that isn't villainous.

I knew I always wanted to sing.

He that lives most dies most.

He who has a mistaken idea of life, will always have a mistaken idea of death.

What I want to do, is play music for somebody who believe in me.

Parting is a training streamer,Lingering like leaves in autumn.

By trusting Christ's redemptive work for us, we can enter into what we long for: the happiness found only in God.

Every book I write, the media just keeps punching me in the face.

A moment's thinking is an hour in words.