The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality – it connects you to reality.

I’m a child of God first. Before I became a celebrity, I was baptized a Christian.

Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.

What’s the greater risk? Letting go of what people think – or letting go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place.

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.

You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.

Whether full-time missionaries or members, we should all be good examples of the believers in Jesus Christ.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

As long as you blame someone or something else – something outside you that’s bigger than you are – as the source of your problems, the problems won’t get solved.

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

I think my vice would be outdoing myself.

If I feel anxious every time someone is staring at me, well, I can’t control what they stare at, but my reaction is, I’m just not going to go outside the house. I’m going to stay in and chill. And when I do go out, I understand what comes along with that.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

I guess I have a little bit of an ego. I’m confidently cocky, you might say.

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

Conversion is a change of masters. Will we not do as much for our new master, the Lord Jesus, as we did once for our old tyrant lusts?

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

The conscience can be a strong guide in life if we allow it.

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

I don’t think I’ve ever been an agnostic. I’ve always thought there’s a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there’s a world to come.

But I’ll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything.

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘

A faithful woman can become a devoted daughter of God – more concerned with being righteous than with being selfish, more anxious to exercise compassion than to exercise dominion, more committed to integrity than to notoriety. And she knows of her own infinite worth.

The ultimate connection is when you are connected to the creator of the universe.

Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I’ve never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line’s always been really blurred for me. I’ll hang out with them after the show. I’ll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I’ll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes.

Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

I don’t blame the average seventeen-year-old punk-rock kid for calling me a sellout. I understand that. And maybe when they grow up a little bit, they’ll realize there’s more things to life than living out your rock & roll identity so righteously.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

My evidence that I am saved does not lie in the fact that I preach, or that I do this or that. All my hope lies in this: that Jesus Christ came to save sinners. I am a sinner, I trust Him, then He came to save me, and I am saved.

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

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

If you’re doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don’t know what was going on in the person’s mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him.

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.

Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.

As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.

We knew sports was important to us and our family, but there are priorities in life.Obviously, faith is foremost; how we did in school is important. If we didn’t handle that business then there were no privileges.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‚yours,‘ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.