“Our prayers run along one road and God’s answers by another, and by and by they meet.”

Thanks be to God, not–only for ‘rivers of endless joys above, but for ‘rills of comfort here below.’

The future is a bright as the promises of God.

I settled down in the full persuasion, that the immersion of a professing believer in Christ is the only Christian baptism.

I never prayed sincerely and earnestly for anything but it came at some time

“to industry.’ Let us change the word, ‘industry,’ to ‘persevering prayer,’ and the motto will be more Christian and more worthy of universal adoption.

Ought to be ‘Devoted for Life.’

If I had not felt certain that every additional trial was ordered by infinite love and mercy

A true disciple inquires not whether a fact is agreeable to his own reason.

Nothing is impossible,’ said one of the seven sages of Greece.

The motto for every missionary, whether preacher, printer, or schoolmaster.

We prefer one room in Rangoon to six in Boston.

And at the end of twenty years you may hear from us again.

After many painful trials, which none can know,

A man might study all his life long, and make no proficiency.

I am not tired of my work, neither am I tired of the world; yet, when Christ calls me home,

I feel it is my duty to plod on, while daylight shall last.

I am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash.

I’ve known great happiness in my life along with great darkness, and a question that has repeatedly entered my poetry has been, how do we use the direct experience of happiness that may be given us.

When email and the Internet came along, I never publish an email address. I just stuck with this P.O. Box address.

When I am sad and wearyWhen I think all hope has goneWhen I walk along High HolbornI think of you with nothing on

I feel that I’d rather know an actors’ work, or have an instinct about them and sit down and have coffee with them, or I’ll see them in something and I’ll see if I can get along with them in some way, shape, or form.

Help along one another’s projects and plans.

The many of us who attain what we may and forget those who help us along the line we’ve got to remember that there are so many others to pull along the way. The farther they go, the further we all go.

No matter what anyone says, no matter the excuse or explanation, whatever a person does in the end is what he intended to do all along.