There never has been a house so bad that it couldn't be made over into something worthwhile.
Don't ask God to give you a light burden. Ask Him to give you strong shoulders to carry a heavy burden.
The Devil did not tempt Adam and Eve to steal, to lie, to kill, to commit adultery; he tempted them to live independent of God.
What you love and what you hate reveal what you are.
The acid test of our love for God is obedience to His Word. The greatest ability is dependability. The test of your character is what it takes to stop you. Trust God as if it all depends upon Him, and work as if it all depends upon you.
When gratitude dies on the altar of a man's heart, that man is well-nigh hopeless.
It is never right to do wrong in order to get a chance to do right.
Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.
Athens is the birthplace of modern tragedy. In the Greek tragic plays, the tableau of the characters would become a statue, like the statue of Oedipus reaching up to the Gods with blood spilling out of his eyes. I love the way the Greeks would immortalize experience. Things that all of us feel.
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
I became an actor by doing school plays and youth theaters, and then National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. And then I did study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. For me that was a good way to enter the field, to work in the theater.