Wealth is a thing, earned with honesty and justice. Its opposite is the Mammon of unrighteousness.

Innocent pleasures are got by virtue and well-earned wealth.

Beneficience removes evils, introduces the practice of virtue, and adds to general welfare and civilization.

The works of present life are more important that the whole and entire reliance on wholesale blind fate.

Faith leaders, young people, American companies, human rights advocates, and many others have demonstrated a unique interest in our Cuba policy. But no community cares more deeply about these issues than Cuban Americans - young and old - who have maintained a profound interest in Cuba and an abiding faith in the Cuban people.

I quite enjoy fame, especially when you go to conventions in America where they treat you like a god with stretch limos and the whole fame thing, but then when you come back to Britain, you end up changing in a toilet in a theatre off West End and that's really good, because that is what it's about.

I've always had a profound conviction that great music is about joy, even in the face of tragedy.

We often read the Bible as if it were fundamentally about us: our improvement, our life, our triumph, our victory, our faith, our holiness, our godliness.