I was studying acting in New York, and wasn't being hired by anyone to do anything other than to work in an Oriental rug warehouse.

There is a danger in being persuaded before one understands.

How it shaped my perception is this: I have become so indelibly identified as a character in pop culture that it has forced me to go deeply within myself to get a very very rock solid sense, to myself, of who I am.

The Devil never tempts us with more success than when he tempts us with a sight of our own good actions.

Labor, therefore, is a duty from which no man living is exempt, without forfeiting his right to his daily bread.

The world would use us just as it did the martyrs, if we loved God as they did.

The commands of God are all designed to make us more happy than we can possibly be without them.