That sin will never stand firm which is heartily prayed against....We must spread out all our case before our heavenly Physician, if He is to give us daily relief.

Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.

Happiness does not depend on outward circumstances, but on the state of the heart.

The greater are our affections the deeper are our afflictions, and the more we love the more we have to weep.

It is bad enough to be unconverted and going to hell. It is even worse to say, “I know it and will not cry for mercy.

Don't need to stand by me, I'm enough for myself.

The feeling of abandonment overwhelmed me as I realised that no one had waited, or cared where I was.

If I want religion, I know where to look for it - and if for example I don't want it, then why should it be forced on me in media and public spaces?

The modern city consists of...dark, narrow streets full of gasoline fumes, coal dust, and toxic gasses, torn by the noise.

I’m always secretly the most pleased when a show just really, really looks good and when my camera guys are really happy with the images they got.

Man has an inexhuastible faculty for lying, especially to himself.

My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you're boned, what's left to create the illusion? Let em wonder. I never believed in giving them too much of me.

When you don't know what to do, get still. The answer will come.

I don't come to tournaments to make friends, to go to parties, to hold conversations. I come to be the best, and I'm not mean and cruel and dirty.

I always wanted to write. While I was on a long surf trip, supporting myself with various day jobs, I was working hard on a novel. My third novel, in fact.