There is enough sin in my best prayer to send the whole world to Hell.

You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.

If my life is fruitless, it doesn't matter who praises me, and if my life is fruitful, it doesn't matter who criticizes me.

You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed. Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge to Satan.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

The difference between true and false repentance lies in this: the man who truly repents cries out against his heart; but the other, as Eve, against the serpent, or something else.

What God says is best, is best, though all the men in the world are against it.

No man, without trials and temptations, can attain a true understanding of the Holy Scriptures.

If people really see that Christ has removed the fear of punishment from them by taking it into Himself, they won't do whatever they want, they'll do whatever He wants.

The truths that I know best I have learned on my knees. I never know a thing well, till it is burned into my heart by prayer.

Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.

Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.

Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalties but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant.

I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.

My responsibility is to truth and beauty.

We're all curious about what might hurt us.

Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. If anyone finds out he'll become happy at once.

As a songwriter, it's very hard to listen to music that's not coming from the heart and soul, personally.

I juggle a lot of different balls and sometimes I don't know how I manage to keep them all up in the air, but I do!

[May 1958, on playing Macbeth at age 30 and age 48] When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part.

For me, choreography is a process of physical thinking. It's very much in mind as well as in body.