In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

There are some Christian people who taste and see and enjoy religion in their own souls, and who get at a deeper knowledge of it than books can ever give them, though they should search all their days.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

There’s a belief that you’re supposed to be poor, and suffering, and show your humility. I just don’t see the Bible that way. I see that God came and Jesus died so that we might live an abundant life and be a blessing to others.

I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

Some days I totally appreciate everything that’s happening to me, and some days I feel everyone’s waiting for me to mess up.

I’ve never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.

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.

Whatever is making you so angry, it’s time for you to give it to God and get over it.

I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

I disagree with everything I used to say.

Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can – that is their secret.

To me, a leader is someone who holds her- or himself accountable for finding potential in people and processes. And so what I think is really important is sustainability.

I was awfully curious to find out why I didn’t go insane.

Spiritual people don’t float around all day on clouds of glory; they live in the real world and deal with real issues in real ways.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you’d experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

The left paw has done me well over the years. I’m not a scientist, I’m a martial artist.

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

I owe my solitude to other people.

Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

What a wee little part of a person’s life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.

The true identity theft is not financial. It’s not in cyberspace. It’s spiritual. It’s been taken.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: With mindfulness, you can see that she is unhappy, that she is suffering. You can see her wrong perceptions. You can see that she is not beautiful when she says things that are unkind.

I can imagine it’s hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn’t know.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

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.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

Individuals need to be willing to face truth about their attitudes, behaviors, even what we want out of life.

The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.

You can have the platinum album. But, you know, when you still feel like you haven’t quite found your place in the world, it kind of gives a crazy offset.

My heroes don’t have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don’t know how, so they talk to themselves.

Even the securest financial plan and the finest health coverage aren’t enough to hold us steady when the challenges come… We need something more, something deeper and unshakeable, something that will see us through life’s hard times.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

If you’re embarrassed because you have some notion about how men are supposed to behave, and it doesn’t include weeping, then you have some personal work to do.

I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

My philosophy is: It’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

My future is righteousness.

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.

Anyone who wants to be pope doesn’t care much for themselves, God doesn’t bless them. I didn’t want to be pope.

If you choose to do something, attack it. You can hate me, but there’s one thing you can’t say about me – that I didn’t attack it.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

One of the things I did when I discovered this huge importance of being vulnerable is very happily moved away from the shame research, because that’s such a downer, and people hate that topic. It’s not that vulnerability is the upside, but it’s better than shame, I guess.

Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

We become what we repeatedly do.

I am in my own head most of the time.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

I think I have always had a little humor.

I have so much in my life. I want to be of value to the world.

I’m so wrapped up in my work that it’s often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this.

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.