And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

What is the Tao Te Ching? Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of existence.

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.

I write for myself things that I’ve gone through.

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that’s Memoirs.

It’s not fun to get out of bed early in the morning. When the alarm goes off, it doesn’t sing you a song: it hits you in the head with a baseball bat. So how do you respond to that? Do you crawl underneath your covers and hide? Or do you get up, get aggressive, and attack the day?

No man is hurt but by himself.

Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

Through my films I’m eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don’t know if I’m ever going to get there, but I’m slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I’m 85, I’ll look back and say, ‚All right, that about sums it up.‘

Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn’t know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn’t even smell like smoke.

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

I liked his ability to deal with a lot of the negativity that surrounded him. Even though he was in a world that he didn’t want to be in, he still saw the bigger picture.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

I’m only as good as my last word, my last hook, my last bridge.

You have to be someone.

I’m very secure about my talents and about who I am.

In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays… and my father used to wait outside. One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God. For me, at least, it got in the way.

He who angers you conquers you.

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

I thank God I’m myself and for the life I’m given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.

I don’t have emotional needs, only physical ones.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

I’m giving all that I have in this life. I’m opening up my notebook, and I’m saying everything in there out loud.

A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There’s no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected.

I don’t write so much now. I’m getting on 33, pot belly and creeping dementia.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.

If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.

Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.

The idea of going to school and getting a job is the most destructive one in your brain.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift!

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

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

I don’t know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I’m a great gift to the world. I’ve been very fortunate.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

The final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.

God has entrusted me with myself.

Relish everything that’s inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.

I don’t mind people hating me, because it pushes me.

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

There’s an inherent danger in letting people think that they have perfected something. When they believe they’ve ‚nailed it,‘ most people tend to sit back and rest on their laurels while countless others will be labouring furiously to better their work!

I don’t need to be vindicated, and I don’t want attention.

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.