Beware of greed and remain pure and just. Restrain yourself from every vice. He who cannot restrain himself, how will he be able to teach others restraint?

Let us, therefore, foresake the vanity of the crowd and their false teachings, and turn back to the word delivered to us from the beginning.

Hear me declare with boldness, I am a Christian.

If you imagine for a moment that I would do that, then I think you pretend that you don't know who I am. Hear it plainly. I am a Christian.

For 86 years I have served Jesus Christ and he has never abandoned me. How could I curse my blessed king and savior?

I exhort you, press on in your course, and exhort all men that they may be saved.

If anyone does not refrain from the love of money, he will be defiled by idolatry and so be judged as if he were one of the heathen.

Eighty and six years have I served Him, and He never did me any injury: how then can I blaspheme my King and my Savior?

But why do you delay? Come, do what you will.

Stand like a beaten anvil.It is the part of a good athlete to be bruised and to prevail.

Only a fool would find happiness from an achievement that is detrimental to those he loves.

If you don't follow your dreams, someone else, somewhere will follow theirs. Don't get left behind.

So the lover must struggle for words.

I like action-adventure movies.

The very concept of universal formal education is a product (and a relatively late product) of the capitalist world-economy.

Because I'm always so paranoid about doing corny things, or cheesy things in music, that often I probably don't make as good music as I could if I wasn't stifling it so much.

If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often.

We are all more similar than we usually realize.

I'm not afraid to move away from funny. I'm not afraid of that.

Poetry isn't an activity, it's a way life is lived.