I cannot praise the common superfluity which women now use in their apparel.

The Scriptures of God are my only foundation and substance in all matters of weight and importance.

I have never once feared the devil, but I tremble every time I enter the pulpit.

Lord, give me Scotland or I die!

A man with God is always in the majority.

Live in Christ, die in Christ, and the flesh need not fear death.

Let no day slip over without some comfort received from the mouth of God.

I will keep the ground that God has given me and perhaps in his grace, he will ignite me again. But ignite me or not, in his grace, in his power, I will hold the ground.

I sought neither preeminence, glory, nor riches; my honor was that Jesus Christ should reign.

When I think of those who have influenced my life the most, I think not of the great but of the good.

The Monstrous Regiment of Women.

15"General ideas and great conceit are always a fair way to bring about terrible misfortune.

My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.

Barack Obama says that we need to be humble toward terrorism. Yet he is the one we have been waiting for. That is humble?

Great names abase, instead of elevating, those who do not know how to bear them.

I am a liberal and always have been - just not the wild-eyed character the Republicans made me out to be.

We are all wired into a survival trip, now.

I stand behind all the lyrics I've ever written; I don't have a problem with that.

If you have discovered a truth, tell it first to a parrot! Every new truth needs an insistent repetition!

Shia [LaBeouf] was great. He's just high energy. He's into really playing, and I had to be on my toes in a way that I wasn't necessarily expecting.

One cannot help being old, but one can resist being aged.