Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that you have received - only what you have given: a full heart, enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice and courage.

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Do all you can to preach the gospel and if necessary use words!

God requires that we assist the animals, when they need our help. Each being (human or creature) has the same right of protection.

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.

The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today.

Ask the beasts and they will teach you the beauty of this earth.

All things of creation are children of the Father and thus brothers of man. ... God wants us to help animals, if they need help. Every creature in distress has the same right to be protected.

What is it that stands higher than words? Action. What is it that stands higher than action? Silence.

He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

If you understood everything I said, you’d be me

I'm sorry you leftists, you're not the only people whose motives are pure.

Look at it this way: if you write the novel of 'Cold Mountain,' it costs exactly the same to produce and market as a novel set in a room. If you make the film, the disparity of costs is huge.

The only answer to the endless chains of why, why, why is that the alternatives died

Some people look at the surface, while some see what's deep down. The most important thing is that the film should somehow stay with them until the very end.

I look up to people who succeed in accomplishing their dreams.

The sum of all that lives is God.

Pride was my wilderness, and the demon that led me there was fear.

There is something beyond the grave; death does not end all, and the pale ghost escapes from the vanquished pyre.

To do a poem justice, explain what makes it unique; to get a poem noticed, explain what makes it typical.