What if we have more of the rough file, if we have less rust! Afflictions carry away nothing but the dross of sin.

Christ went more willingly to the cross than we do to the throne of grace.

God sweetens outward pain with inward peace.

Eternity to the godly is a day that has no sunset; eternity to the wicked is a night that has no sunrise.

A weak faith can lay hold on a strong Christ.

Knowledge without repentance will be but a torch to light men to hell.

Sin has the devil for its father, shame for its companion, and death for its wages.

The angel fetched Peter out of prison, but it was prayer that fetched the angel.

Till sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet.

How many souls have been blown into hell with the wind of popular applause?

A man's greatest care should be for that place where he lives longest; therefore eternity should be his scope.

Every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being re-directed to something better.

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.

If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

I can't create music if I'm wearing a mask and not being myself, and that was the problem with The Czars.

You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership.

Rule No. 12: shop the peripheries of the supermarket and stay out of the middle.

The 2014 elections are not about winning or losing, but of ensuring a bright future for India. It is about sowing the seeds for a 'Bhavya' and a 'Divya Bharat'.

What are we doing here, that is the question. And we are blessed in this, that we happen to know the answer. Yes, in the immense confusion one thing alone is clear. We are waiting for Godot to come

My generation will actually be the first generation that is tamer than the one that came before it, and it will probably be poorer; less fun and less money.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony.