What a mercy was it to us to have parents that prayed for us before they had us, as well as in our infancy when we could not pray for ourselves!

No doctrine is more excellent, or necessary to be preached and studied, than Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

Did Christ finish His work for us? Then there can be no doubt but He will also finish His work in us.

The carnal person fears man, not God. The strong Christian fears God, not man. The weak Christian fears man too much, and God too little.

The law sends us to Christ to be justified, and Christ sends us to the law to be regulated.

As God did not at first choose you because you were high, He will not now forsake you because you are low.

Suppose that by revenge you might destroy one enemy; yet, by exercising the Christian's temper you might conquer three‌–‌your own lust, Satan's temptation, and your enemy's heart.

The Scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.

To see a man humble under prosperity is one of the greatest rarities in the world.

Whatever be the ground of one's distress, it should drive him to, not from God.

They that know God will be humble. They that know themselves cannot be proud.

I will never take what is never given, but I will receive to what is given.

I woke up to singing and found myself singing too

Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music and you always have to keep that in mind.

I've worked with jazz artists, country artists, classical artists, pop artists. I never wanted there to be categories, because when I was a kid there weren't.

Sometimes love is calm and easy and sometimes it's just plain dirty.

I write because I want to end my loneliness. Books make people less alone. That, before and after everything else, is what books do. They show us that conversations are possible across distances.

More than one cigar at a time is excessive smoking.

I'm talking as a professional impresario. I'm not judging anybody at all.

I just have a sense that Obama's not going to ultimately succeed in totally transforming America into something other than how it was founded.

Frying pans! Who knew, right?