“Entrance into Heaven is not at the hour of death, but at the moment of conversion.”

None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad.

None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.

The judge is nothing but the law speaking.

Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.

None more deceive themselves than they who think their religion is true and genuine, thought it refines not their spirits and reforms not their lives.

Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.

We are only so free that others may be free as well as we.

Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.

Whoever despiseth shame, despiseth sin.

Every man is born with the faculty of reason and the faculty of speech, but why should he be able to speak before he has anything to say?

None can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.

He that repents is angry with himself; I need not be angry with him.

No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.

That power is in vain which is never in use.

Truth is not only a man’s ornament but his instrument; it is the great man’s glory, and the poor man’s stock: a man’s truth is his livelihood, his recommendation, his letters of credit.

Those who live not by law would be justified by Custom: but, as common practice is the worst teacher that ever was, so the truth and goodness of things is not to be estimated by the entertainment and acceptance they find in the world.

The tearoom lady called me love. All the shop ladies called me love and most of the men called me mate. I hadn’t been here twelve hours and already they loved me.

The Bernie Mac Show’ is my life. It’s the truth, and I’m not ashamed of a minute, an hour, or a second of my life.

Now is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream.

The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.

As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.

With television you are producing hours and hours of music and for film it is a shorter experience for both the audience and for you as a composer.

When Attenborough asked me to do Gandhi it was almost like stepping off one boat and stepping on to another, even though both boats are going at 60 miles per hour.

You always gotta be on time, an hour ahead of everything. You always gotta be prepared.