I’ve always been – you know, my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so I’m just being who God made me to be.

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

My moms always told me, ‚How long you gonna play the victim?‘ I can say I’m mad and I hate everything, but nothing really changes until I change myself.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

The personal ego already has a strong element of dysfunction, but the collective ego is, frequently, even more dysfunctional, to the point of absolute insanity.

Why lie? I’m not going to be a hypocrite and say the opposite of what I think, like some others do.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

I’ve always believed that success for anyone is all about drive, dedication, and desire, but for me, it’s also been about confidence and faith.

All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.

One thing I hope I’ll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.

Too many Christians live their lives like slaves – to the devil – because they believe his lies more than they trust God.

It doesn’t matter who likes you or doesn’t like you, all that matters is that God likes you. He accepts you, he approves of you.

Our personal intelligence is everlasting and divine.

There’s a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It’s deceptive because when you have pride, you’re usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn’t sell well.

The other day the President said, I know you’ve had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?

When you are young you tend to do so many things that are not needed. When you get experience, you know what exactly what works for you and you tend to do things that you want.

I’ve never been an intellectual but I have this look.

Such as we are made of, such we be.

A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.

Don’t ever forget two things I’m going to tell you. One, don’t believe everything that’s written about you. Two, don’t pick up too many checks.

Many people look at me and think they know me but they don’t at all. This is the real me. I am a humble person, a feeling person. A person who cares about others, who wants to help others.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

Obedience brings success; exact obedience brings miracles.

If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‚yours,‘ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

I just really believe people have to get hungry. I think maybe what we need to do, instead of trying to stuff our beliefs down people’s throats, is just pray for them to really be hungry and to see their neediness.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

To you I’m an atheist; to God, I’m the Loyal Opposition.

God didn’t make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God… If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.

The more people I reach, the more people there are that have opinions about me. Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me.

I hear my friends and my mom tell me I’m special, but honestly, I still don’t get it.

The fact that you are willing to say, ‚I do not understand, and it is fine,‘ is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

Become aware of your own insufficiency.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

I don’t ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing ‚cos that’s just… that’s just telling yourself a lie.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

Certain though I am – and ever more certain – that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Believing is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith.

No, I’m not a French designer either. I’m from nowhere. I’m a European, old European is all I am.

My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father.

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.

There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

I think Pat Robertson is a terrific fellow.

To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

I’m not confused. I’m just well mixed.

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.

Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

I would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to do a man justice, you should believe what a man says himself rather than what people say he says.

Prayer is a confession of one’s own unworthiness and weakness.

I’ve just tried to grow up in the most natural and gradual process that I possibly can and make choices I feel are right for me and my fans.

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

There have been times that I’ve wept as I’ve gone from city to city and I’ve seen how far people have wandered from God.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.