“When you fly from temptation, don’t leave a forwarding address. Where there’s smoke there’s fire.”

Unexpected results are the rule rather than the exception.

Smooth words in place of gifts.

Badly gotten, badly spent.

Let not your expenditure exceed your income.

It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.

And one eye-witness weighs More than ten hear-fays. Seeing is believing, All the world o’er.

It is difficult to fly without wings.

Know this, that troubles come swifter than the things we desire.

It is easy to rule over the good.

Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.

Worthy things happen to the worthy.

Conquered, we conquer.

Where there are sheep, the wolves are never very far away.

Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.

A man with courage has every blessing.

As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.

Listen … With faint dry sound, Like steps of passing ghosts

Spiritual formation for the Christian basically refers to the Spirit-driven process of forming the inner world of the human self in such a way that it becomes like the inner being of Christ himself.

I never consciously set out to be an actor. I just kind of did whatever acting I could do.

Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you’ve made something, it’ll – the world will be different.

I like the fact that there was a European, first-time director. I’d known of him because I’m from Europe.

He’s got to have a bit of an edge, but that would be nice.

Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.

I know of a charm by way of a prayer that will preserve a man from the violence of guns and all manner of fire-weapons and engines but it will do me no good because I do not believe it