There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.

God’s angels often protect his servants from potential enemies.

They are resilient children, but they are children, and as much as they need help to understand the hard truths in life, they also need what we all need – protection and love.

I’ve stopped drinking, but only while I’m asleep.

Use, do not abuse… neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

After momma gave birth to 12 of us kids, we put her up on a pedestal. It was mostly to keep Daddy away from her.

May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

Satan is the master distracter. He is always working to keep us off track in our walk with God.

And when a woman’s will is as strong as the man’s who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

Engage your brain before you engage your weapon.

It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.

I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.

I’m a people pleaser. I hold a lot of things in. I’m always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don’t rage; I usually don’t curse.

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people’s lives.

I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.

The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

A good lawyer is going to try to protect her client.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you’ve conquered human nature.

But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know. There’s no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.

People need to be insured so when you have an accident out there, or when something catastrophic happens to you, that you’re covered and there’s not someone else has to pay for you. That is as simple as that.

We know that in tough times, cynicism is just another way to give up, and in the military, we consider cynicism or giving up simply as forms of cowardice.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

There is moderation even in excess.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn’t do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, ‚Is it safe?‘ Expediency asks the question, ‚Is it politic?‘ And Vanity comes along and asks the question, ‚Is it popular?‘ But Conscience asks the question, ‚Is it right?‘

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

If you’re put on a pedestal, you’re supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.

God looks after children, animals and idiots.

You don’t have to give way to careless speech or complaining. You don’t have to let your feelings get in the way of what God wants to do in your life.

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

I don’t ever make moves under pressure.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

Mindfulness practices enhance the connection between our body, our mind and everything else that is around us. Mindful living is the key to understanding our struggles with weight and to empowering us to control our weight.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Life guided me to being a bodyguard, protecting people, then in the movies, so I’m happy with everything because basically all I ever wanted to do was be a good son and take care of my mother.

A man without a vote is man without protection.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.