The world looks at ministers out of the pulpit to know that they mean in it.

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

Method is the very hinge of business, and there is no method without punctuality.

God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.

Example is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.

Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.

All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes.

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

I could write down twenty cases wherein I wished that God had done otherwise than he did, but which I now see, if I had had my own way, would have led to extensive mischief.

Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse.

Unbelief starves the soul; faith finds food in famine.

I think you feel like, unless you're damagedyou're not deep enough or mysterious enoughor complicated enough to ever be appreciated by another.And that is deeply untrue.

It seems like there are so many homesick people in the world. It seems like so many of us live far away from where we were born.

I rather mistrust young men who slip into life gracefully.

I believe that I have a platform because God blessed me with the talent to play football. Having that talent, my job is to be responsible with it.

I actually acted onstage before I'd ever seen a live performance, and I loved it.

It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.

If you aren't getting flak, you aren't over the target.

There are people who can sit down and write a song about any given subject, and they can do it really, really well.

My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on.

My #1 goal is to make videos that I'd want to watch.