He, who loves praise, loves temptation.

Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

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

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

A good judge should never boast of his power, because he can do nothing but what he can do justly: he is not the master, but the minister of the law. Authority without virtue is a very dangerous state.

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.

To serve God, to love God, to enjoy God, is the sweetest freedom in the world.