I'm not the kind of person who tries to be cool or trendy, I'm definitely an individual.

Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.

It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

It must be good to die in the knowledge that one has done some truthful work and to know that, as a result, one will live on in the memory of at least a few and leave a good example for those who come after. A work that is good may not last for ever, but the thought expressed by it will, and the work itself will surely survive for a very long time, and those who come later can do no better than follow in the footsteps of such predecessors and copy their example.

I am writing to Russell at the same time. I think we know, don't we, that the English, the Yankees, have this much in common with the Dutch, that their charity…is very Christian. Now, the rest of us not being very good Christians…That's what I can't put out of my head writing again like this.

Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished

Have the moral courage to be a light for others to follow.

Herein lies the most solemn challenge facing Christians who want to communicate their faith: if we do not live in a way that draws others to the faith rather than repels them, none of our words will matter.

Stanley Hauerwas, named "America's best theologian" by Time magazine, summed up the problem: "I have come to think that the challenge confronting Christians is not that we do not believe what we say, though that can be a problem, but that what we say we believe does not seem to make any difference for either the church or the world.