The price of wisdom is above rubies.

If God is for us, who can be against us?

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.

The real satanist is not quite so easily recognized as such

The kingdom of God is within you.

With God, all things are possible.

A Christian should use these arts to the glory of God, not just as tracts, mind you, but as things of beauty to the praise of God. An art work can be a doxology in itself.

Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one.

There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty.

They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.

You need to learn how to walk the world, he told me. There's a lot out there.

For women to achieve equal representation in leadership roles, it's important that they have the backing of men as well as women.

I've been most happy to be an advocate for the kinds of grassroots things that people are doing who care about poetry.

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.

Well I had a musical background, but I still didn't know a lot about drums at the time.

Each individual has their own unique color, which shines faintly around the contours of their body. Like a halo. Or a backlight. I'm able to see those colors clearly.

This country cannot afford the deceptive luxury of waging defensive warfare.

No one really knew Freddie. He was shy, gentle and kind. He wasn't the person he put over on stage.

Today I got so annoyed with myself that I lost my patience and walked away from a game that, with hindsight, I should have continued [on quitting a game early on against Hendry]

I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with Drew Barrymore, and Christian Bale from 'Empire of the Sun,' who'd never made a movie before.