It is not great talents or great learning or great preachers that God needs, but men great in holiness, great in faith, great in love, great in fidelity, great for God.

Four things let us ever keep in mind: God hears prayer, God heeds prayer, God answers prayer, and God delivers by prayer.

All God's plans have the mark of the cross on them, and all His plans have death to self in them.

He who is too busy to pray will be too busy to live a holy life. Satan had rather we let the grass grow on the path to our prayer chamber than anything else.

It is necessary to iterate and reiterate that prayer, as a mere habit, as a performance gone through by routine or in a professional way, is a dead and rotten thing.

Prayer honors God, acknowledges His being, exalts His power, adores His providence, secures His aid.

Prayer succeeds when all else fails

If God is not first in our thoughts and efforts in the morning, He will be in the last place the remainder of the day.

God shapes the world by prayer. The more prayer there is in the world the better the world will be, the mightier the forces of against evil

Prayer is not learned in a classroom but in the closet.

We regard prayer no longer as a duty which must be performed, but rather as a privilege which is to be enjoyed, a rare delight that is always revealing some new beauty.

You'll never understand someone if you can't stop assuming you already know everything about them.

My work has been always presented to me in front of others by creating a unique individual.

I'm sad to say that stardom is a commodity in our culture.

Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.

I don't need bodyguards. I'm from the South Bronx.

In Russia religion is the opium of the people; in China opium is the religion of the people.

I think all versions of limited-overs cricket have attracted more people to the game.

If the truth is told how I want to be remembered... as someone who cared. Someone who worked really hard and someone who didn't sit around.

Economics is a slave-driver. No one has free time; no one has any leisure.

I like to do all kinds of films.