Let all things be loved for the sake of Jesus, but Jesus for His own sake.

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance.

All men desire peace, but very few desire those things that make for peace.

Learned arguments do not make a man holy and righteous, whereas a good life makes him dear to God.

Wherever you go, there you are.

Let temporal things be in the use, eternal things in the desire.

The Lord bestows his blessings there, where he finds the vessels empty.

God often grants in a moment what He has long denied.

Greater is Your care for me than all the care I am able to take from myself.

At the Day of Judgement we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done.

The gods of the realms are many and varied -- or they are the many and varied names and identities tagged onto the same being. I know not -- and care not -- which.

A book is a wonderful present. Though it may grow worn, it will never grow old.

I can't afford to say yes to all my staff's desires, but one thing is certain – I can't afford the outrageous cost of not listening to their requests.

Five hundred words a day is what I aim for. And I don't go on to the next chapter until I've polished and polished and polished the one I'm working on.

To be ignorant of the past is to be forever a child.

My body has been making women laugh for the last 20 years and I'm happy to continue to oblige.

I think that the consumer is generally unaware of certain material facts, particularly the tax risk and compensation issues.

Acting is about communicating what it is like to be human: the pain, the laughs, the misery, the joy. I suppose I am searching to have it all.

When someone wrongs you, walk away from them and don't ever look back.

And I've been wearing specs since I was three.