He that is down needs fear no fall.

You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.

If my life is fruitless, it doesn't matter who praises me, and if my life is fruitful, it doesn't matter who criticizes me.

You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed. Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge to Satan.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

The difference between true and false repentance lies in this: the man who truly repents cries out against his heart; but the other, as Eve, against the serpent, or something else.

What God says is best, is best, though all the men in the world are against it.

No man, without trials and temptations, can attain a true understanding of the Holy Scriptures.

If people really see that Christ has removed the fear of punishment from them by taking it into Himself, they won't do whatever they want, they'll do whatever He wants.

The truths that I know best I have learned on my knees. I never know a thing well, till it is burned into my heart by prayer.

Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.

Be a learning machine. What made you money last year, won't necessarily make you money this and next year.

Sometimes I hear the echo of your voice in an empty hall and it reminds me that you're gone.

I've always been that person: If it gets into my head, I've got to do it until I get it perfect - a perfectionist's attitude.

My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.

Politics is social work with power.

Not in the history of mankind has the government ever created a job.

People are terrible. They can bear anything. Anything! People are hard and brutal. And everyone is disposable. Everyone! That's the lesson.

I think, if you've got children, that's your life. Your 'showbiz' life, if you want to call it that, is a separate thing, and it isn't everything to me.

In Italy, there are so many significant architectural structures in history such as the Pantheon in Rome, or the Duomo.

We shall make mistakes; and if we let these mistakes frighten us from our work we shall show ourselves weaklings.