The Monstrous Regiment of Women.

The Scriptures of God are my only foundation and substance in all matters of weight and importance.

I have never once feared the devil, but I tremble every time I enter the pulpit.

Lord, give me Scotland or I die!

A man with God is always in the majority.

Live in Christ, die in Christ, and the flesh need not fear death.

Let no day slip over without some comfort received from the mouth of God.

I will keep the ground that God has given me and perhaps in his grace, he will ignite me again. But ignite me or not, in his grace, in his power, I will hold the ground.

I sought neither preeminence, glory, nor riches; my honor was that Jesus Christ should reign.

When I think of those who have influenced my life the most, I think not of the great but of the good.

O Lord Eternal, move and govern my tongue to speak the truth.

Thy dark eyes beckon me into the darkest nether world of dark galaxies and darker supernovas. Forever in darkness, I know no light! Thy darkness my dark-light!

Talent is helpful in writing but guts are absolutely necessary.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

When the Special Theory of Relativity began to germinate in me, I was visited by all sorts of nervous conflicts... I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

Who remove stones, bruise their fingers.

Walking is a way of being somewhere, rather than striving to arrive.

The link between peace and stability on the one hand, and social and economic growth on the other, is dialectic. Peace, poverty, and backwardness cannot mix in one region.

The Italians . . . you can't find one who is honest.

It's in that convergence of spiritual people becoming active and active people becoming spiritual that the hope of humanity now rests.

When I first heard that Barack Obama was going to be the first black president, I wanted to do the smallest, biggest tribute in history.