I believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist, and he is always trying to persuade people to his way of thinking, and I think, ‚What a waste of energy.‘ If people want to believe in this god or that god, that’s fine by me; believe away. But I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.

It is my absolute belief that Indians have unlimited talent. I have no doubt about our capabilities.

I used to have insecurity about my finances, then I announced that I had debt, and now I don’t have any insecurities.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die – and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

I’ve never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.

My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right person, or suddenly your health improves, or suddenly you’re able to pay off your house. That’s God shifting things in your favor.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

I thought one should have the attitude of ‚What do you care what other people think!‘

Anybody can be specific and obvious. That’s always been the easy way. It’s not that it’s so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it’s just that there’s nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.

I don’t know if I’ve ever cared much what others think.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

The greatest gift is the ability to forget – to forget the bad things and focus on the good.

If I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I’ll die someday, and one day, they will too.

I am, as a character, at times, a little overbearing. I recognize that.

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

Isn’t it amazing that we are all made in God’s image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?

When I was old enough to change my name, I changed it to Mr. T so that the first word out of someone’s mouth was ‚Mister,‘ a sign of respect.

I don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.

I don’t think there’s anyone who would say they don’t want or need more of God’s power in their life.

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.

Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.

It’s a representation of yourself, and you can express a lot of your creativity with what your wearing.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.

Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?

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.

Everybody has a purpose.

The same thing I did in 2013 is what I’m trying to do in 2014, which is continue to improve, continue to shock people. You know, I have several projects coming up between 2014 and 2015, and hopefully by 2015, I’ll have another hour of stand-up material where I’ll be able to go on the road and tour again.

Man’s unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

You’ll never rise any higher than the way you see yourself.

We’ve been programmed, from the time that we were very, very little, about what we can’t do – about what is impossible.

Without forgiveness, there’s no future.

I’m crazy and I don’t pretend to be anything else.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

I don’t believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.

I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

I think I could go away tomorrow. I’ve already accomplished something. It’s such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.

There is not a separate God for each person. There is one universal intelligence flowing through all of us.

I think it’s my responsibility, as a person of influence… to sometimes try to do what I can.

I can do whatever I want.

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

I woke up one day and thought: ‚I want to write a book about the history of my body.‘ I could justify talking about my mother because it was in her body that my body began.