The big message of gospel is that you don’t have to keep fighting the universe; you can stop, and the universe is quite good to you. There is a loss of ego.

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.

Religions get lost as people do.

Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what’s underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don’t think it ever will be.

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

I’m not afraid to make mistakes.

We all gonna die eventually from something or other, but don’t be a wimp. Put up a good fight.

In God’s family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.

The gods‘ service is tolerable, man’s intolerable.

As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.

No man is hurt but by himself.

Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.

My gold, my money couldn’t stop cancer from appearing on my body. If they can’t save me, then I don’t need them.

All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

You don’t want to pigeonhole yourself.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

The first fresh hour of every morning should be dedicated to the Lord, whose mercy gladdens it with golden light.

If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you’re criticizing God.

Know that any and all thoughts that you have regarding your own skills, interests, and inclinations are valid. To reinforce the validity of your thoughts, keep them private. Tell yourself that they’re between you and God.

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

If there are people you haven’t forgiven, you’re not going to really awaken. You have to let go.

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do.

We are all at times unconscious prophets.

You know, God will give favor to anyone who will believe Him. Every day you should confess that you have favor everywhere you go. God will begin to open doors that you wouldn’t believe.

I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness. Heaven knows that John the Baptist was not more eager to get all his fellow sinners into the Jordan than I to baptize all of mine in the beauty of God’s mountains.

To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.

To try to become happy is to try to build a machine with no other specifications than it shall run noiselessly.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

What you don’t do can be a destructive force.

Well, I wouldn’t say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

Here in America, we don’t give in to our fears. We don’t build up walls to keep people out.

If you’re not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can’t be of very much use to yourself.

To become ‚unique,‘ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

I always try to be smart. I try to treat all the money I’m making like it’s the last time I’m going to make it.

I was called a terrorist yesterday, but when I came out of jail, many people embraced me, including my enemies, and that is what I normally tell other people who say those who are struggling for liberation in their country are terrorists.

I like to complain and do nothing to make things better.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

I still enjoy watching a batter successfully cross home plate, but nothing thrills me more than seeing the Holy Spirit at work in hearts as the Gospel is carried into stadiums, across the airwaves, and around the world.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

Didn’t get promoted? Good. More time to get better.

We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

Better is the enemy of good.