God grant you all your desires and accept my own hearty thanks for all your attention to me. Although indeed, those attentions have tried me more than death can now terrify me.

The faith of the church must be tried by God's word, and not God's word by the church; neither yet my faith.

Deny the world, defy the devil, despise the flesh, and delight yourself only in the Lord.

The highest earthly enjoyments are but a shadow of the joy I find in reading God's Word.

The works of God are great mysteries and may truly always be hidden from us, however it is not wrong to lead your own personal enquiry through your prayers to the Lord.

God and posterity will show me more favour

Lord, into thy hands I commend my spirit!

I do wash my hands in innocency, before God and the face of you, good Christian people this day.

Pray God in the bowels of his mercy to send you his Holy Spirit; for he hath given you his great gift of utterance, if it pleased him also to open the eyes of your heart.

I had no jealousy of work, no jealousy of money. I was just jealous of women who took advantage of men, because I didn't know how to do it.

I am what you made me, Father.

What I've been developing is a vegan fast food chain and vegan food markets.

Sparky Anderson taught me this a long time ago: 'There's three ways you can treat a person. You can pat 'em on the butt, you can kick 'em in the butt, or you can leave 'em alone.'

The people who are behind the curve of the Catholic future are the institutional-maintenance types.

SETI is a mirror, a mirror that can show ourselves from an extraordinary perspective and can help to trivialize the differences among us.

If you want to dispossess a people, the simplest way to do it is to tell their story and to start with 'secondly'.

I'm lucky because I don't feel too much pressure - it's only in the last hour before the race, and even then it's good, positive pressure.

I have been struck by the way all the young people I've met through coming back to music are so much more generous-spirited with each other than I remembered people being. It gives me hope.