I never fall in love.

Jesus never mistreated anyone just because they mistreated Him. He confronted them in a spirit of gentleness and then continued to love them.

Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.

Kids who have an understanding of how and why their feelings are what they are are much more likely to talk to us about what’s happening, and they have better skills to work it out.

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

I always wanted to be loved.

When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can ‚be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough‘ are not true. They are fairy tales.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

Love… it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

I let the American people down.

We love things we love what they are.

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

Love is an interesting thing.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.

He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.

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.

Vulnerability is about showing up and being seen. It’s tough to do that when we’re terrified about what people might see or think.

I hated to be treated as a child. I thought it was the worst situation.

Whenever I write a novel, I have a strong sense that I am doing something I was unable to do before. With each new work, I move up a step and discover something new inside me.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it’s a green light.

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one’s heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It’s a way of life for me.

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.

The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say ‚recognize‘ because you’re not… it’s not new.

I’m like a recovering perfectionist. For me it’s one day at a time.

Depression begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement.

I have never felt that the one thing that I am ‚known for‘ is what I am.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it.

If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me.

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

When you find a guy who is powerful, a big father figure, you latch onto him immediately.

Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do.

Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it’s like a battery: you’ve got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.

I’m not intimidated by how people perceive me.

If you don’t know your full-throttle history, the whole story of how you came to where you are, it’s kind of hard to put things together.

Billy Graham is one of my great lifetime heroes. I think he epitomizes the essence of what a Christian leader should be. I have participated in some of his crusades a couple of times in Atlanta. I’ve seen the profound impact he’s had on me personally, and on other people who were not Christians and accepted Christ as Savior.

These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I’d be a damn‘ fool if they weren’t.

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.