It costs more to revenge injuries than to bear them.

To serve God, to love God, to enjoy God, is the sweetest freedom in the world.

The commands of God are all designed to make us more happy than we can possibly be without them.

The greatest of all disorders is to think we are whole and need no help.

He, who loves praise, loves temptation.

Our life must answer for our faith.

Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

The world would use us just as it did the martyrs, if we loved God as they did.

A great man is made so for others.

Intemperance in talk makes dreadful havoc in the heart.

And by the same token, I appreciate math, because I can't do math. If I have to read a map or figure out the tip on a restaurant bill, I might start to tear up a little bit.

I always welcomed the comforting cloak of night except for the times when I lost something in it.

Fear is one thing that can ruin everything. It's the greatest problem.

I no longer wanted to satisfy myself. I really want to connect with the world and make my music mean something to people.

In fact, a large majority of those have died and of those expected to die of AIDS, as well as of those who are infected with the virus, are in sub-Saharan Africa.

Poets are never allowed to be mediocre by the gods, by men or by publishers.

God doesn't measure His bounty, but oh how we do!

What you want to do, and what you can do, is limited only by what you can dream.

I'm a fetish filmmaker, in that I don't know why I do what I do, I just like to see things. When I figure out what I would like to see, I will put it in a film.

I was brought up in Scotland and have always been a country person, although the town means a great deal to me, too.

To worship our false selves is to worship nothing. And the worship of nothing is hell.