The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.

Love is the crowning grace of humanity.

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.

Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.

Man has not a greater enemy than himself.

It is better to will the good than to know the truth.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.

Virtue is health, vice is sickness.

For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.

It's time, my childrenWhen the waves rise high When the waters run deepWhen the clock strikes midnightYou'll feel the mark of Zero HourAnd you'll never be the same again

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it's like a battery: you've got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

Going to another country you're not in your house, you're with people you've never met before, and I think it's definitely a good growing experience.

Prayer is not monologue, but dialogue; God's voice is its most essential part. Listening to God's voice is the secret of the assurance that He will listen to mine.

There may be no single thing that can teach us more about life than death.

Every time somebody new gets the Ebola virus, it mutates.

The first time I performed musically, I threw up.

If you are creative enough to imagine a problem, you're clever enough to discover a solution.

It is God who makes woman beautiful, it is the devil who makes her pretty.