I come from the Town of Stupidity; it lieth about four degrees beyond the City of Destruction.

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.

You know you're getting older when you don't care where your wife goes just so you don't have to go along.

Each of us has a vital role to play in building a world in which the government and technology serve the world's people and not the other way around.

ADDER, n. A species of snake. So called from its habit of adding funeral outlays to the other expenses of living.

You can never ask others to do something you would not do. That is integrity.

[Doing a bilingual album] helped artistically because whenever I got bored of writing in English, I would write in Spanish. It's always cool when you have the choice.

Every experience is worth having.

The endgame is an arena in which miraculous escapes are not uncommon.

he might die for her, but living for her would be quite different.

Humans are cowards in the face of happiness. It takes courage to hold on to happiness.

Theres always an anxiety about playing literary characters because one of the great joys of reading books is that you can create your own vision of things.