The power of the Holy Spirit cannot be successfully duplicated. If a person is supernaturally changed and given a love for God's glory, God did it.

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

I'd tell my 20-year-old self, 'Don't be afraid to do it all. Whatever you're interested in, just go for it. Don't wait around for a better time.'

For every problem or confusion and for every desire or ambition there is an available force waiting for your call.

When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it.

I'm not a big guy for research. You've got to take a risk.

I did a play in Bolton - 'Billy Liar.' I turned it down at first but then thought, 'What the hell else can I do? I'm no good at anything else.'

Sometimes you must suffer through something to defeat your fear of it.

The greatest fear that haunts this city is a suitcase bomb, nuclear or germ. Many people carry small gas masks. The masses here seem to be resigned to the inevitable, believing an attack of major proportions will happen.

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Doubt not, O poet, but persist. Say 'It is in me, and shall out.' Stand there, balked and dumb, stuttering and stammering, hissed and hooted, stand and strive, until at last rage draw out of thee that dream-power which every night shows thee is thine own; a power transcending all limit and privacy, and by virtue of which a man is the conductor of the whole river of electricity.

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.