The devil is a peace stealer, and he works hard to set us up to get upset. But we can learn how to change our approach so we don’t live upset all of the time. And Jesus gives us the best example to follow.

I realize I don’t do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.

Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

In a universe that’s an intelligent system with a divine creative force supporting it, there simply can be no accidents. As tough as it is to acknowledge, you had to go through what you went through in order to get to where you are today, and the evidence is that you did.

When I was writing ‚Kitchen Confidential,‘ I was in my 40s, I had never paid rent on time, I was 10 years behind on my taxes, I had never owned my own furniture or a car.

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

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

Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

Every day I pray about all I do.

Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.

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

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence… on pain of liquidation.

What you are comes to you.

I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it’s spoken.

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

Faith is easy; I think people complicate it.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Prayer is such a basic foundation of a Christian’s relationship with God. It’s how we communicate and fellowship with Him. But a surprising number of people, young and old, new and even long-time Christians, say they’re not satisfied with their prayer life.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.

Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can’t be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

I was never particularly fond of my voice.

I regarded finding I had a form of Alzheimer’s as an insult and decided to do my best to marshal any kind of forces I could against this wretched disease. I have posterior cortical atrophy or PCA. They say, rather ingenuously, that if you have Alzheimer’s it’s the best form of Alzheimer’s to have.

If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.

That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for my education.

Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.

Nothing on ‚Relapse‘ and very little on ‚Recovery‘ was produced by me.

I’m just like you – I want to be a good human being. I’m doing my best, and I’m working at it. And I’m trying to be a Christian. I’m always amazed when people walk up to me and say, ‚I’m a Christian.‘ I always think, ‚Already? You’ve already got it?‘ I’m working at it. And at my age, I’ll still be working at it at 96.

Scripture is filled with examples of men and women whom God used late in life, often with great impact – men and women who refused to use old age as an excuse to ignore what God wanted them to do.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, ‚darkness‘ on the walls of his cell.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

One of my proudest moments is I didn’t sell my soul for the sake of popularity.

When one door is closed, don’t you know, another is open.

Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

My one big regret is that I didn’t play on for ten more years.

If you get your ego in your way, you will only look to other people and circumstances to blame.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.

If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word – prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

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

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

I feel like my message is to let people know that God is a good God, that He’s on their side, and no matter what happens, He has a great plan for them.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn’t always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.

I am a Catholic, not so committed to the church, but to the idea of the Virgin, the female face of God.

Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.

To feel not only submitted but willing to be anything or nothing as the Lord wills it – this is, in truth, to sing a song to our Well Beloved.

There are phases in life which surface at times, and it makes you understand that despite you working hard, everything what you are doing is probably not enough. That’s when you need to look around, and beyond.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Now I realize that from ’72 through to about ’76, I was the ultimate rock star. I couldn’t have been more rock star.

I have no time to think about other writers. I am too busy with my own problems.