I am now a man of despair, rejected, abandoned, shut up in this iron cage from which there is no escape.

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.

Life in the twentieth century undeniably has ... such richness joy and adventure as were unknown to our ancestors except in their dreams.

I think words were Reagan's greatest weapon - and more powerful than the Strategic Defense Initiative, which did not come to fruition in his lifetime.

I don't mind doing the green-screen stuff at all, and in fact it's a lot like black-box theater, which I did plenty of in New York.

The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men.

Handguns are a public-health problem.

To eat off another man's plate. [To live an another's expense.]

The problem is no longer that with every pair of hands that comes into the world there comes a hungry stomach. Rather it is that, attached to those hands are sharp elbows.

The humble latrine, or flush toilet, reduces disease by twice as much as just putting in clean water.

How do you create a film that can reach millions of people and engage them in the subject? You have to take risks and try something new.

If lyrics sold then truth be told/I'd probably be just as rich and famous as Jay-Z.