Thomas F. Wilson Quotations

Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

The Devil never tempts us with more success than when he tempts us with a sight of our own good actions.

I was studying acting in New York, and wasn't being hired by anyone to do anything other than to work in an Oriental rug warehouse.

How it shaped my perception is this: I have become so indelibly identified as a character in pop culture that it has forced me to go deeply within myself to get a very very rock solid sense, to myself, of who I am.

I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts.

The world would use us just as it did the martyrs, if we loved God as they did.

If you going to live by a certain code - as Bob Dylan said, you gotta serve somebody.

And by the same token, I appreciate math, because I can't do math. If I have to read a map or figure out the tip on a restaurant bill, I might start to tear up a little bit.

He, who loves praise, loves temptation.

Our life must answer for our faith.