Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

This has always been my life and no one else’s, and that’s how it’s always been since the day I came in it.

These are the soul’s changes. I don’t believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

I’ve learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone.

Why go through life if you’re not going to challenge yourself?

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

If I’d married someone in show business, there’d be too much competition.

Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they’re not trying to keep up with you.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.

Life’s too short to deal with other people’s insecurities.

Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

My mother and my father have been married 50 years, and he’s just started to understand that something’s wrong with the system. He accepted the whole thing, you see. Yet this industrious kind of engagement didn’t bring him the success, according to American terms, that he wanted. I was probably affected by this very much. In fact, I know I was.

I’ve learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there’s no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.

In the Western Church to which I belong, priests cannot be married as in the Byzantine, Ukrainian, Russian or Greek Catholic Churches. In those churches, the priests can be married, but the bishops have to be celibate. They are very good priests.

As long as you blame someone or something else – something outside you that’s bigger than you are – as the source of your problems, the problems won’t get solved.

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

I’ve never been one to sit back and go, ‚I’d better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don’t want to lose them.‘

People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it’s about earning approval and acceptance.

Learn to say ‚no‘ to the good so you can say ‚yes‘ to the best.

The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

I want to challenge you today to get out of your comfort zone. You have so much incredible potential on the inside. God has put gifts and talents in you that you probably don’t know anything about.

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

Libraries raised me.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

We become what we repeatedly do.

I walk tall; I got a tall attitude.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.

Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.

I have an expression I use as I’ve gone around the world through my career: ‚You never tell another man or woman what’s in their interest. They know their interest better than you know their interest.‘

The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

I don’t think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be.

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.

You’ve got to learn to survive a defeat. That’s when you develop character.

The single most powerful thing I can be is to be myself.

You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It’s your call.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.

So many people live with anger and unforgiveness, and many of them are Christians.

I’m sure everyone knows now that only a few have performed in Madison Square Garden. That list is so small. Now I’m on that list. I’m a part of a very small group, which is unbelievable. You relish in that moment for a second.

I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person’s life. God is in everyone’s life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else – God is in this person’s life. You can – you must – try to seek God in every human life.

He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

I always wanted a family.

Choose people who lift you up.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‚understand‘ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

Because my dad abused me, I was determined to never let a man tell me what to do. God clearly showed me that I needed to be a submissive wife if I wanted to be effective in ministry. The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

If a person doesn’t change, there’s something really wrong with him.