We prepared to go ashore to publish for the first time in New Zealand the glad tidings of the gospel.

It is high time to make known the glad tidings in these dark regions of sin and spiritual bondage.

Civilization is not necessary before Christianity; do both together if you will, but you will find civilization follow Christianity more easily than Christianity follow civilization.

The worth is in the act. Your worth halts when you surrender your will to change and experience life. But options are before you

a wise man is not afraid to face the truth

Cruel men are the greatest lovers of Mercy, avaricious men of generosity, and proud men of humility; that is to say, in other, not in themselves.

A refrigerator is the opposite of a drug addict, because a refrigerator starts in a box and then moves to a house.

Heroes in history seem to us poetic because they are there. But if we should tell the simple truth of some of our neighbors, it would sound like poetry.

It takes me probably about four hours to get into the groove [with making music]. And it's really important for me to not break the groove.

Professional land surveyors take on a lot of responsibility, and should be compensated appropriately.

Authors of all races, be they Greeks, Romans, Teutons, or Celts, Can't seem just to say anything is the thing it is but have to go out of their way to say that it is like something else.

I feel like it's always about embracing what it is that you think is wrong with you. It's often times your greatest 'flaw' which actually forays into what is also your greatest strength.

My wife is so fat that the last time I saw something that big it was grazing.