Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

I was bullied as a boy – lots of kids are, but hopefully most of us get on with our lives and grow up.

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man’s happiness really lies in contentment.

The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously. This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn’t allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.

I break ground. I trailblaze.

A game is like a mirror that allows you to look at yourself.

Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.

I can do whatever I want.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.

It’s like, remember who you always were, where you came from, who your parents were, how they raised you. Because that authentic self is going to follow you all through life, so make sure that it’s solid so it’s something that you can hold on and be proud of for the rest of your life.

I was becoming post-ideological.

There are a lot of ‚chicken Christians.‘ Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

Everyone is different. Everyone has different teams they’ve played on, coaches they’ve played for.

It’s amazing: I am a New Yorker. It’s strange; I never thought I would be.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

I think as long as I do a good job and put in all my effort to proving that I’m worth it, then everything should be fine.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

Me, as a person, I grow. I’m like a chameleon. You know? That is a gift and a curse for me. But more so a gift, because it never puts me in a box.

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

I don’t want to hear the word ‚can’t.‘

I believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist, and he is always trying to persuade people to his way of thinking, and I think, ‚What a waste of energy.‘ If people want to believe in this god or that god, that’s fine by me; believe away. But I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.

I have to keep improving myself and challenging myself.

When I was old enough to change my name, I changed it to Mr. T so that the first word out of someone’s mouth was ‚Mister,‘ a sign of respect.

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

We all have experiences in our lives that change us, and we all learn from people, like my dad, but at the end of the day, it’s only us. And we’re only responsible to make ourselves happy.

What you are comes to you.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won’t receive the good things God has in store.

People want to feel hopeful.

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

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

It’s absolutely normal that different human beings want to go different ways.

I liked his ability to deal with a lot of the negativity that surrounded him. Even though he was in a world that he didn’t want to be in, he still saw the bigger picture.

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.

You make yourself broad. You make yourself appealing. ‚Hey, y’all, I’m cool with everybody.‘ That’s my message.

I’ve always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.

I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there’s a confidence I have. I learned that from Muhammad Ali; I used to bodyguard him. He taught me about confidence. So when it comes to any job I work, I’m gonna do it good; I’m going to bring it over the top.

You know, it’s not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.