Were we to think more of our own mistakes and offences, we should be less apt to judge other people.

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.

And is often the case with faith, I thought I was being asked a favor, when in fact I was being given one".

Time flies when you are having fun.

I could imagine myself becoming one of Marla's stories.

With 'Avatar,' I thought, Forget all these chick flicks and do a classic guys' adventure movie, something in the Edgar Rice Burroughs mold, like John Carter of Mars - a soldier goes to Mars.

A series of accidents creates a positively light-hearted state, out of consideration for this strange power.

You talked about national identity cards and the terrorism bill. We have made a government that has grown used to viewing us as subjects, has grown used to seeing its role as commanding us.

Evidence of innocence is irrelevant!

Stocks are a safe bet, but only if you stay invested long enough to ride out the corrections.

The more defensive a society, the more conformist.

When you side with a man, you stay with him. And if you can't do that, you're like some animal. You're finished. We're finished. All of us.