Left to himself, man is half beast and half devil.

Be humble, talk little, think and pray much.

Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.

What! Get to heaven on your own strength? Why, you might as well try to climb to the moon on a rope of sand!

If you are going to walk with Jesus Christ, you are going to be opposed ... In our days, to be a true Christian is really to become a scandal.

Study to know Him more and more, for the more you know, the more you will love Him.

I was honored today with having a few stones, dirt, rotten eggs, and pieces of dead cat thrown at me

It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.

Congregations are lifeless because dead men preach to them.

God forbid that I should travel with anybody a quarter of an hour without speaking of Christ to them.

Christ is worth all, or he is worth nothing.

If you don't synthesize knowledge, scientific journals become spare-parts catalogues for machines that are never built.

Wisdom is the principal thing. The principle to discover the principal thing is "the fear of the Lord". Fear God and be wise.

Be healthy and happy.

Sometimes, we miss the truth when it's right in front of us, she thought. Sometimes the closer we are, the harder it is to see.

Courageous people feel the same fear everyone else does, they just decide to not be afraid anymore.

The more I learn about the evolution of ideas, the more I have become aware that I am simply an unrepentant Old Whig-with the stress on the "old.

My wife Mariana is a good photographer too and, like me, she just picks up a camera and takes a picture when she sees something, rather than looking too deeply into it.

The lucky thing was that I was Italian; when the other Italians saw me fight back, they came to my defence.

Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.

Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present.