It is remarkable that God began this work among the Indians at a time when I had the least hope, and to my apprehension the least rational prospect of success.

Lord, let me make a difference for you that is utterly disproportionate to who I am.

Let me forget the world and be swallowed up in the desire to glorify God.

I care not where I go, or how I live, or what I endure so that I may save souls. When I sleep I dream of them; when I awake they are first in my thoughts.

Give yourself to prayer, to reading and meditation on divine truths: strive to penetrate to the bottom of them and never be content with a superficial knowledge.

There is a God in heaven who overrules all things for the best; and this is the comfort of my soul.

Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God; and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others.

Oh! one hour with God infinitely exceeds all the pleasures and delights of this lower world.

I cared not where or how I lived, or what hardships I went through, so I could but gain souls to Christ

I longed to be a flame of fire continually glowing in the divine service and building up of Christ's kingdom to my last and dying breath.

It is sweet to be nothing and less than nothing that Christ may be all in all.

By fate or forgery, our dances are entwined for eternity.

Must I at length the Sword of Justice draw?Oh curst Effects of necessary Law!How ill my Fear they by my Mercy scan, Beware the Fury of a Patient Man.

Love hurts, Love will make you cry, Oh your heart still aching, From living a lie.

The secret of my vigor and activity is that I have managed to have a lot of fun.

My father wasn't a militant racist. He was a human rights activist - he was about human beings, so let's just get away from going way back then.

I have had an experience which might perhaps be described as being shot down. At the same time, I call shot down only when one falls down. Today I got into trouble but I escaped with a whole skin.

I think that's the job of a director really, to sort of funnel all the creativity into one centralized point of being.

He became an officer and a gentleman, which is an enviable thing.

With a positive attitude, you can be anything you want to be.

Much of the uncertainty of law is not an unfortunate accident: it is of immense social value.