Oh Lord, purify my soul from all its stains. Warm my heart with the love of thee, animate my sluggish nature and fix my inconstancy, and volatility, that I may not be weary in well doing.

You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.

There are four things that we ought to do with the Word of God - admit it as the Word of God, commit it to our hearts and minds, submit to it, and transmit it to the world.

It is the true duty of every man to promote the happiness of his fellow creatures to the utmost of his power.

Let it not be said that I was silent when they needed me.

If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large.

We are too young to realize that certain things are impossible... So we will do them anyway.

May God enable me to have a single eye and a simple heart, desiring to please God, to do good to my fellow creatures, and testify my gratitude to my adorable Redeemer.

Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer.

Africa, your sufferings have been the theme that has arrested & engaged my heart.

The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy.

Perhaps true weakness is weakness of the spirit

I don't watch a lot of TV, to be honest. With three kids I have my hands full.

As long as you can Houdini your way out of the Sisyphean constraints then originality happens.

My thoughts and prayers go out to the thousands of marathon runners, onlookers, city officials and others affected by this senseless tragedy.

I know that all cops are not sterling characters. But you have to have someone to root for. I balance it with rotten cops who will take a bribe, who will beat somebody up.

We want to decipher skies and paintings, go behind these starry backgrounds or these painted canvases and, like kids trying to find a gap in a fence, try to look through the cracks in the world.

When you walk into a movie theater, you don't walk out half-way through, and then come back the next day to watch the rest of it.

Literature incarnates its meanings as concretely as possible. The knowledge that literature gives of a subject is the kind of knowledge that is obtained by (vicariously) living through an experience.

Expand your inner circle to include those who can challenge your thinking and escalate you to unreached heights of success.

Invention is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration