The heart is not so constituted, and the only way to dispossess it of an old affection is by the expulsive power of a new one

Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or not.

Write your name in kindness, love and mercy on the hearts of the thousands you come in contact with year by year, and you will never be forgotten.

Faith is like the hand of the beggar that takes the gift while adding nothing to it.

It is in those times of hopeless chaos when the sovereign hand of God is most likely to be seen.

Guard against that vanity which courts a compliment, or is fed by it.

Prayer does not enable us to do a greater work for God. Prayer is a greater work for God.

The sum and substance of the preparation needed for a coming eternity is that you believe what the Bible tells you, and do what the Bible bids you.

Regardless of how large, your vision is too small.

I take one decisive and immediate step, and resign my all to the sufficiency of my Saviour.

Acts of virtue ripen into habits; and the goodly and permanent result is the formation or establishment of a virtuous character.

Generosity creates the higher life. There is no nobler virtue than the care one person shows to another.

Now comes the reign of iron — and cased sloops are to take the place of wooden ships.

We live in Secret. We live in Silence. And we live Forever...

Darkness was my best friend and loneliness my soulmate.

We don't avoid the word... just the action.

One of the things you're doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.

I do small things. I try to do good things every day.

In Hollywood, lying is something that people do like breathing.

I like to say that before we can create an external space in which to receive people, we have to create an internal space in which to receive them.

I never really got on my own case about my own acting. I know a lot of other people have, and probably very justifiably. But I don't worry about stuff like that too much.