To know the will of God is the greatest knowledge! To do the will of God is the greatest achievement.

Christ was born in the first century, yet he belongs to all centuries. He was born a Jew, yet He belongs to all races. He was born in Bethlehem, yet He belongs to all countries.

There is no failure in God's will, and no success outside of God's will.

Christ's religion needs no prop of any kind from any worldly source, and to the degree that it is thus supported is a millstone hanged about its neck.

And not only did this great consolidated ecclesiasticism assume to lord it over men's earthly treasures, but they lorded it over men's minds, prescribing what men should think and read and write.

Stand up and walk. Move on. After all, you have perfect legs to stand on.

We were young. We were bored. And the old electroshock therapy machine was just under the stairs in a box next to the Hoover.

The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible to-day.

I wished she’d never stop squeezing me. I wished I could spend the rest of my life as a child, being slightly crushed by someone who loved me.

I think one reason I'm drawn to expansive syntax is that arias are so often exercises in extending language as a means of intensifying feeling.

When a king creates an office, Providence creates immediately a fool to buy it.

Hope, true hope, has proved as important as any medication I might prescribe or any procedure I might perform.

I don't want to be ordinary. I'm willing to do the work. I'm willing to suffer the indignities of comedy because I want to be great. I don't want to just be good. I want to be great.

Casey Affleck is a really good friend of mine. I know Casey a lot better than I know Ben, even though Ben and I have worked together a lot.

The path of least resistance will never make you proud.