Special mercy arouses more gratitude than universal mercy.

This life was not intended to be the place of our perfection, but the preparation for it.

I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men.

Keep up a humble sense of your own faults, and that will make you compassionate to others

The longer you delay, the more your sin gets strength and rooting. If you cannot bend a twig, how will you be able to bend it when it is a tree?

Suffering so unbolts the door of the heart, that the Word hath easier entrance.

Lay siege to your sins, and starve them out by keeping away the food and fuel which is their maintenance and life.

If they can see you love them, you can say anything to them.

Study hard, for the well is deep, and our brains are shallow.

Christ leads me through no darker rooms than He went through before.

You are not likely to see any general reformation, till you procure family reformation.

Imagination governs the world.

Surround yourself with positive people.

If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

I think that you get something for your acting from almost anything you do.

Human warmth is perhaps the most lacking in a composer who lives his life in a recording studio.

A good deed never goes unpunished.

What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance.

Adversity will do something too you or for you.

A sigh can shatter a castle in the air.

Actually, I used to be a busboy in a strip joint in New York and so I hate strip joints. I'm not that kind of person.