We all have two lives: an inner life and an outer life. Your inner life is your soul life, which includes your mind, will and emotions. Your outer life is your physical life. And while God cares about every detail of your life, He is more concerned with your inner life than your outer life.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There’s always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

It is always your next move.

I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset – tears are words waiting to be written.

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

Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man’s resources?

If we don’t plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don’t have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don’t have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

I’m over being a pop star. I don’t wanna be a hot girl. I wanna be iconic. And I feel like I’ve accomplished a lot. I feel like I’m highly respected, which is more important than any award or any amount of records. And I feel like there comes a point when being a pop star is not enough.

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence – beginning with one’s own.

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

We conceal it from ourselves in vain – we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

A dark cloud is no sign that the sun has lost his light; and dark black convictions are no arguments that God has laid aside His mercy.

At the end of the day, I understand that life has road blocks, and life is like school – you’ll be tested; we gotta pass it.

I don’t look at my old work. I mean, they made nice books; the books were made without me, the one from last year and the one from this year. I – personally, I’m not interested in my own past. I’m only interested in today – perhaps tomorrow.

I have trouble with letting go. That’s my problem.

I don’t spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that’s how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

If there is no God, everything is permitted.

The word ‚Islam‘ means ‚peace.‘ The word ‚Muslim‘ means ‚one who surrenders to God.‘ But the press makes us seem like haters.

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

Around every corner, always protect the engine that powers you.

I was raised to be independent.

Spiritual people don’t float around all day on clouds of glory; they live in the real world and deal with real issues in real ways.

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

Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there’s gonna come a time that you’re gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.

Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

Yeah, I was a delinquent. It was when I was in the ninth grade. I was doing stupid stuff, and the cops came into the class. I was humiliated more than anything.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other’s faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.

There is no love of life without despair of life.

I don’t want followers.

I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.

I searched for years I found no love. I’m sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.

Bitterness is cancer – it eats upon the host. It doesn’t do anything to the object of its displeasure.

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.

People who truly understand what is meant by self-reliance know they must live their lives by ethics rather than rules.

God made me and broke the mold.

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.

If I wouldn’t have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

Our necessities never equal our wants.

The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build.

The soul is healed by being with children.

My life is my argument.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one’s breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God’s grace.

A beautiful homily, a genuine sermon, must begin with the first proclamation, with the proclamation of salvation. There is nothing more solid, deep and sure than this proclamation.

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ‚Ego‘.

Never complain and never explain.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Always do what you are afraid to do.