To fish in troubled waters.

Hope for the best, get ready for the worst, and then take what God chooses to send.

Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.

Christ's followers cannot expect better treatment in the world than their Master had.

The Bible is a letter God has sent to us; prayer is a letter we send to him.

It was the greatest honor God did to man that he made man in the image of God; but it is the greatest dishonor man has done to God that he has made God in the image of man.

The more reverence we have for the Word of God, the more joy we shall find in it.

There is a burden of care in getting riches; fear in keeping them; temptation in using them; guilt in abusing them; sorrow in losing them; and a burden of account at last to be given concerning them.

No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness.

After a storm comes a calm.

Wherever the fear of God rules in the heart, it will appear both in works of charity and piety, and neither will excuse us from the other.

He saw in happiness the seeds of independence, and in independence the seeds of revolt.

We'll meet again. We'll meet when years have passed, and years make such a difference, don't they?

When I was teaching at the University of Tehran we were struggling against the implementation of the revolution rules.

Economics is half psychology and half Grade Three arithmetic, and the U.S. does not now have either half right.

Your dreams can be realities. They are the stuff that leads us through life toward great happiness.

Lyrics are very different. There is a clear line between that and a poem. Something that has been a source of great excitement and delight for me is this idea that I get to rhyme.

I couldn't name more than a couple of good drum'n'bass acts, and I have no idea what's big in the dance world right now.

Grief is a very scary thing, and there comes a point where it can really take you down.

I like hip-hop music, but some of the lyrics make me want to cry.

The professional respects his craft. He does not consider himself superior to it. He recognizes the contributions of those who have gone before him. He apprentices himself to them.