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

Sometimes, I want to talk on a song and be angry, because I am angry. Then there’s always a part of me that remembers that this record lives past my being angry, and so do I really want to be angry about that? Is that feeling going to have longevity?

Hollywood is not suited for me, and I am not suited for it.

I think the discovery of supersymmetric partners for the known particles would revolutionize our understanding of the universe.

I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.

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

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

I always knew who I was, and I always ran from my true purpose… I know what my job is. And I always ran from it.

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

What is the Tao Te Ching? Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of existence.

In the Church, and in the journey of faith, women have had and still have a special role in opening doors to the Lord.

One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

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.

In this quest to seek and find God in all things, there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There’s no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected.

If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again.

I can’t tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I’ve got a good bead on myself.

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

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.

The Jesuits have a vow to obey the pope, but if the pope is a Jesuit, maybe he should have a vow to obey the superior general… I feel like I’m still a Jesuit in terms of my spirituality, what I have in my heart.

I’ve never professed to be anything but an average student.

I was always taught not to answer no questions. I’m not really good at answering them because I get agitated so fast.

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

Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God.

Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It’s also the dangerous part and it’s an ugly emotion that hurts.

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it’s beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, one.

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

I don’t believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.

If you abandon the present moment, you cannot live the moments of your daily life deeply.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

A daily portion is really all we need. We do not need tomorrow’s supply, for that day has not yet dawned, and its needs are still unborn.

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity.

First, I’m trying to prove to myself that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll convince myself that I’m an actress.

It seems to me that terrestrial beings, as they become more autonomous, psychologically richer, shut themselves up in a way against one another, and at the same time gradually become strangers to the cosmic environment and currents, impenetrable to one another, and incapable of exteriorizing themselves.

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

As a member of the Church, you have made sacred covenants with the Lord.

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

Sometimes I think we’re alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we’re not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.

The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don’t know if I’ll ever be as good a dad as my dad.

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.

I am absolutely my own biggest critic.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

I’m not a complete psychopath. Am I partially? Sure. I’ll accept that. But I’m not a complete psychopath.

What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.

Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

I never said I was the best in anything. I never said I’m an icon. The world decides all of that.

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

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

True happiness… is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Honoring the priesthood fosters respect, respect promotes reverence, and reverence invites revelation.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us… While what we call ‚our own life‘ remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make ‚our own life‘ less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?

My purpose is to make exciting music, and I feel like I’ll be doing that for the rest of my life, so there’s no pressure.

Being brought up very religious, I have a fear of people that look to idol gods.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

People can try to reinvent themselves. I don’t think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you’ve done up to now.

The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.