It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely. I still wore the blue dress and the blouse the orphanage provided. They made me look like an overgrown lummox.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

Partnering with Atlantic Records creates the opportunity to take what we’re doing to the next level, without compromising.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

I briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can’t fix the weather – you just have to get on with it.

Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Honoring the priesthood fosters respect, respect promotes reverence, and reverence invites revelation.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

I cannot read a single word of the Hindoos without being elevated.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

When I did A Soldier’s Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!

Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.

Game’s always been open arms with me.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

The Tibetan people will need to determine who the next reincarnation of the Dalai Lama is.

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

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

All the learnin‘ my father paid for was a bit o‘ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

If you change and adapt your persona, you are seen as inauthentic; if you stay the angry young man, you fade from attention or seem tiresome.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men… We are who we are because they were who they were. It’s wise to know where you come from, who called your name.

The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottage princes‘ palaces.

Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

Build a man a fire, and he’ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.

I am not afraid of death, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it’s just noise that can be a distraction.

You can’t do something forever.

Faith never makes a confession.

True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is far deeper than that – it is spiritual transaction with the Creator of Heaven and Earth.

Through fidelity, we situate ourselves and maintain ourselves in the hands of God so exactly as to become one with them in their action.

Never give a sword to a man who can’t dance.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I’ll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Despite the slowness, the infidelity, the errors and sins it committed and might still commit against its members, the Church, trust me, has no other meaning and goal but to live and witness Jesus.

Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.

God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we’re small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.

People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.

I sincerely hope I can contribute to the progress there has been in relations between Jews and Catholics since the Second Vatican Council in a spirit of renewed collaboration.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a ‚race‘ life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

God’s Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm. I love that.