One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.

Honestly, I’ve been thinking lately about how boring I am. When I do get time to myself, I watch TV.

I’ve seen my friends take someone back after they’ve cheated because they fit perfectly.

I know love is the answer.

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.

For me, the opposite of scarcity is not abundance. It’s enough. I’m enough. My kids are enough.

I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.

The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don’t like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they’re 95 percent dead wood.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

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.

Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves.

I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.

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.

We loved with a love that was more than love.

When you are young you tend to do so many things that are not needed. When you get experience, you know what exactly what works for you and you tend to do things that you want.

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

Hate has no place in the house of God.

I actually feel more of a woman because I feel like I’m being smart about my choices, and I’m putting my family first, and I’m in charge of my life and my health. I think that’s what makes a woman complete.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

I was adored once too.

For me, education was power.

I feel that I’ve done what I wanted to do, and that makes me feel fairly content.

I felt I had to solve everyone’s problems.

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.

From my earliest childhood, my attention was specially directed to the subject of acoustics, and specially to the subject of speech, and I was urged by my father to study everything relating to these subjects, as they would have an important bearing upon what was to be my professional work.

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

I would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky things, but now I’ve got kids and responsibilities, so I can’t be my own test pilot. That wouldn’t be a good idea. But I definitely want to fly as soon as it’s a sensible thing to do.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.

I used to live with my grandmother. I used to wonder why the other kids in school went home with their mothers and fathers. I wanted to be the guy that got married. I wanted to be the guy with the children and the white picket fence. I never had that.

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it’s because that’s what’s inside.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.

I think a father is important for everyone. If you don’t have, then maybe not so much. In the world today, it’s possible that you grow up with only one parent in the family.

I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age. Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

There’s plenty about God that I don’t understand and can’t explain. But I come back to my core belief that God is good, that He’s for us.

It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.

I built a label at the same time I built a career.

I am radically, insanely, nutty in love with Jesus!

When we go to the Bible we should keep in mind that the basic principles of the Bible are taught by God, but written down by human beings deprived of modern day knowledge. So there is some fallibility in the writings of the Bible. But the basic principles are applicable to my life and I don’t find any conflict among them.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man’s life.

You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

My family wasn’t rich, so when it comes to money, I tend to think, ‚Err on the side of caution.‘

My whole life is a theater piece.

Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you’ve closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.

I don’t think anything about a personal legacy. I mean, those words would never come out of my mouth unless I just repeated them. Those things have never been important to me.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.