Any time we are misused or used for a purpose other than what God intended us for, it’s damaging.

Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.

He that sows thorns should never go barefoot.

No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.

I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.

Don’t create more enemies than you take out by some immoral act.

I’ve never been pregnant, so I just feel God didn’t mean for me to have kids so that everybody else’s children could be mine.

People have to go through trials and tribulations to get where they at. Do your thing – continue to rock it – because obviously, God wants you here.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye.

I can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

I didn’t mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.

I first had the idea of writing a popular book about the universe in 1982. My intention was partly to earn money to pay my daughter’s school fees.

I got a greater purpose. God put something in my heart to get across, and that’s what I’m going to focus on, using my voice as an instrument and doing what needs to be done.

We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.

I never have an intended audience. I just write, you know.

To be in any way a positive contribution, that’s all anybody wants to be. It’s all I’ve ever wanted to be. I wanted to be an artist, be a mother. You want to feel that in your life you’ve been of use, in whatever way that comes out.

To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

Death wasn’t part of God’s original plan for humanity, and the Bible calls death an enemy – the last enemy to be destroyed.

The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying.

Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to pieces.

One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last – but eat you he will.

When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.

You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation.

No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.

War settles nothing.

I don’t care whether you’re driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you’re headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. That’s what the American people called for in November, and that’s what we intend to deliver.

I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you’re a person of influence and a person of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.

An overflow of good converts to bad.

My dad used to have an expression – ‚It is the lucky person who gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they are about to do, and thinks it still matters.‘

The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew’s cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo’s choice to know the truth. It’s a beautiful, beautiful story.

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place.

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

He who acts with a constant view to his own advantage will be much murmured against.

Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.

Surely our job while we’re here on Earth is to learn about the world, not to create parallel universes.