So often we have a kind of vague, wistful longing that the promises of Jesus should be true. The only way really to enter into them is to believe them with the clutching intensity of a drowning man.

There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.

Prayer is not flight, prayer is power. Prayer does not deliver a man from some terrible situation; prayer enables a man to face and to master the situation.

Prayer is not a way of making use of God; prayer is a way of offering ourselves to God in order that He should be able to make use of us.

Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.

There is no joy in the world like the joy of bringing one soul to Christ.

The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.

Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.

If we find ourselves becoming critical of other people we should stop examining them, and start examining ourselves.

Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross.

In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can.

No, not under the vault of another sky, not under the shelter of other wings. I was with my people then, there where my people were doomed to be.

India has over 20 percent of the kids born in the world. And they move around a lot.

Americans are so often thrown by Japan. It looks familiar but, an inch below the surface, it isn't anything like the West at all.

I certainly want to establish myself as an actor in my own right, rather than being just the actor who plays Harry Potter.

President Bush has been silent on Schwarzenegger. Of course, he can't pronounce Schwarzenegger.

Just five years ago, it was almost impossible to waste a million dollars building a Web site.

The wounds of self-love turn incurable when the oxide of self-love gets into them.

There's the silver lining I've been looking for.

With some CGI, I think the brain slightly perceives that things aren't real. There's no gravity, the light's not quite real, the shadows aren't quite real.

My mother always told me, 'Don't get married. Make your own life. You don't need a man.'