If God causes you to suffer much, it is a sign that He certainly intends to make you a saint.

Whatever you are doing, that which makes you feel the most alive...that is where God is.

Pray as if God will take care of all; act as if all is up to you.

All the things in this world are gifts of God, created for us, to be the means by which we can come to know him better, love him more surely, and serve him more faithfully.

For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who disbelieve, no amount of proof is sufficient.

He who carries God in his heart bears Heaven with him wherever he goes.

He who goes about to reform the world must begin with himself, or he loses his labor.

It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.

Love ought to show itself in deeds more than in words.

To conquer himself is the greatest victory that man can gain.

Let us work as if success depended upon ourselves alone, but with heartfelt conviction that we are doing nothing, and God everything.

You cannot do anything with knowledge unless you know where it stops, and the costs of using it.

I need no alibi, I did steal your heart.

The true Philosophy, known and practised by Solomon, is the basis on which Masonry is founded.

Music is kind of a strange business, and it's too weird of a job to have mean, conniving people around.

We have to find new ways to work without permission, new ways to turn corners and go through doors that are closed off to us to create our own audiences and our own material independently.

Bonds are guaranteed certificates of confiscation

These feelings you engender in me, my lord, are most indelicate. You should stop causing them immediately.

Know why certain foods, such as truffles, are expensive. It's not because they taste best.

If I were in this business only for the business, I wouldn't be in this business.

Ordinary thinking and ordinary effort are almost never enough to generate leadership.