It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good; but well reading of a few.

This life was not intended to be the place of our perfection, but the preparation for it.

I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men.

Keep up a humble sense of your own faults, and that will make you compassionate to others

The longer you delay, the more your sin gets strength and rooting. If you cannot bend a twig, how will you be able to bend it when it is a tree?

Suffering so unbolts the door of the heart, that the Word hath easier entrance.

Lay siege to your sins, and starve them out by keeping away the food and fuel which is their maintenance and life.

If they can see you love them, you can say anything to them.

Study hard, for the well is deep, and our brains are shallow.

Christ leads me through no darker rooms than He went through before.

You are not likely to see any general reformation, till you procure family reformation.

Sometimes you have to go 'yippee-ki-yay' on a person who deserves it.

We prefer to be around others who bring out the best in us and make us feel good, don’t we? Customers want to do business with people who make them feel valued, appreciated, and happy.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds.

Do you know when you may concede your insignificance? Before God or, perhaps, before the intellect, beauty, or nature, but not before people. Among people, one must be conscious of one's dignity.

The world was fair, the mountains tall In Elder Days before the fall.

Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth.

If we can revert to the truth, then a great deal of one's suffering can be erased, because a great deal of one's suffering is based on sheer lies.

I thought this was pretty timely and it was pretty interesting [to film in Snowden].

I learned not to worry so much about the outcome, but to concentrate on the step I was on and to try to do it as perfectly as I could when I was doing it.