One of the most important decisions you’ll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

As you read or listen to God’s Word and spend time talking to Him in prayer, your spirit will eventually become stronger than your flesh.

The hardest thing for – not only an artist but for anybody to do is look themselves in the mirror and acknowledge, you know, their own flaws and fears and imperfections and put them out there in the open for people to relate to it.

The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.

Despite the slowness, the infidelity, the errors and sins it committed and might still commit against its members, the Church, trust me, has no other meaning and goal but to live and witness Jesus.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

I always tell young girls, surround yourself with goodness. I learned early on how to get the haters out of my life.

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

If in prayer I come before a throne of grace, the faults of my prayer will be overlooked.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.

We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.

I supported Donald Trump.

That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for my education.

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

I had never been in charge of anything. I’d always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry. I always had a boss yelling at me. So I’d never been in charge of an organization.

I’ve never gone wrong trusting my gut.

Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

Observe all men, thyself most.

Worship is transcendent wonder.

Where the mind goes, the man follows.

I am God’s vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

I’ve done a lot of things I’m not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that.

Catering to bad feelings feeds and empowers them.

I periodically realize every few years that the only person whose taste I really trust is me.

You want to do good things, and once you’ve done a couple of good things in a row, you think ‚Well gee, let’s not mess this up.‘ But I am lucky at this point that I have something I really love to do, and it completely holds my attention. I never feel frustrated by it.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it – I think that’s important.

My weaknesses have always been food and men – in that order.

When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

When I was growing up, there was nobody in my family – not even my mother – who I could look to and be like, ‚I know you’ve never said anything homophobic.‘ So, you know, you worry about people in the business who you’ve heard talk that way. Some of my heroes coming up talk recklessly like that.

I’m blessed to have such a tight-knit family that we can talk about anything. Whether we talk frequently or not, since we’re on separate ends of the country, there are a lot of moving parts, and we always stay tight and find that center ground that keeps us together.

A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music – these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.

People don’t usually compliment your character.

I have never felt more confident in myself, more clear on who I am as a woman. But I am constantly thinking about my own health and making sure that I’m eating right and getting exercise and watching the aches and pains. I want to be this really fly 80-90-year old.

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

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

We’re a blip in the existence of the universe, and we’re constantly trying to pull each other down. Not doing things to help each other.

It’s wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

I have discovered that just because we grow weaker physically as we age, it doesn’t mean that we must grow weaker spiritually.

It’s more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I’m naive, where I’m a novice.

Things do not change; we change.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It’s a death trap.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

When I get logical, and I don’t trust my instincts – that’s when I get in trouble.

You’re president, if you conclude my judgment is not the right judgment, I abide by that, but I want an opportunity to have an input.

I answer only to God.

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.