Yet my great-grandfather was but a water-man, looking one way and rowing another: and I got most of my estate by the same occupation.

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.

I am facing a challenge, I am not facing defeat. Remember this.

It's too late. We can't win, they've gotten too powerful.

Settling other people's land is an American tradition.

True friends are like stars; you can only recognize them when it's dark around you.

The world is gonna try to clean you up, what the f**k you gonna do about it? You're gonna say, "I wanna stay ugly".

We're entering a bionic era where we actually are beginning to see technology that's sophisticated enough to emulate key physiological functions.

"Weenie" was definitely a word we used at Yale back then. But I'm not sure you were one, Larry [Kramer]. Also, you were going by a different name.

We are trying to get a border wall to protect millions of low income Americans against folks who aren't supposed to be here. So, it's a national security.

You stand your ground and you perform your art. That's what the artist does. The artist is about perfection.

I have taken part in ceremonies with North American and Mexican shamans, as well as Brazilian ceremonies.