Sleep is sweet to the labouring man.

You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.

If my life is fruitless, it doesn't matter who praises me, and if my life is fruitful, it doesn't matter who criticizes me.

You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed. Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge to Satan.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

The difference between true and false repentance lies in this: the man who truly repents cries out against his heart; but the other, as Eve, against the serpent, or something else.

What God says is best, is best, though all the men in the world are against it.

No man, without trials and temptations, can attain a true understanding of the Holy Scriptures.

If people really see that Christ has removed the fear of punishment from them by taking it into Himself, they won't do whatever they want, they'll do whatever He wants.

The truths that I know best I have learned on my knees. I never know a thing well, till it is burned into my heart by prayer.

Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.

Better to wait actively than passively.

To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.

It's like giving up a belief in Santa Claus.

Self-justification, therefore, is not only about protecting high self-esteem; it's also about protecting low self-esteem if that is how a person sees himself.

As soon as man seeks to penetrate the secrets of Nature--in which nothing is secret and it is but a question of seeing--he realizes that the simple produces the supernatural.

There used to be one writer rather than a team of writers. It's the old line about a camel being a horse designed by committee.

Nothing so clearly distinguishes a spiritual man as his treatment of an erring brother.

We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it's past already.

In New York, I'll walk down the street and someone will say, 'Nice show,' and that's it. If I'm at a food festival, it's open season.

I don't like to label films with a genre.