All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.

You’ve got to have faith in what you’re doing and not take no for an answer.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

‚God‘ is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and ‚Deity‘ is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.

Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

It’s in the difficult times that we’re growing and you can’t just rebuke everything hard. We’ve got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.

The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.

I am for people. I can’t help it.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

Education doesn’t change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.

I feel confident imposing change on myself. It’s a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That’s why I need to throw curve balls.

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

Our philosophy is that we care about people first.

Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.

The Hindu religions gave me the impression of a vast well into which one plunges in order to grasp the reflection of the sun.

Fear clogs; faith liberates.

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

The first fresh hour of every morning should be dedicated to the Lord, whose mercy gladdens it with golden light.

If people lose faith in their government, the result is the same whether or not the loss of confidence is justified.

I am a Christian and a Democrat, that’s all.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

Is man one of God’s blunders? Or is God one of man’s blunders?

I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God’s will.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.

If something can corrupt you, you’re corrupted already.

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

I wake up every day inspiring myself, because God gave me life.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don’t honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

I can never be safe; I always try and go against the grain. As soon as I accomplish one thing, I just set a higher goal. That’s how I’ve gotten to where I am.

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.

Has Jesus saved me? I dare not speak with any hesitation here; I know He has. His Word is true; therefore, I am saved.

Because I believe in God and have faith in God, it doesn’t mean I am immortal. It doesn’t mean I am immune, as has been claimed. I am as scared as anyone of getting hurt, especially driving a Formula One car.

The most effective prayers are usually the simple prayers.

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.

I have made the mistaken assumption – and I will attempt to be better at this – of thinking that because somebody is on Twitter and is attacking me that it is open season. And that is my mistake.

There is nothing so stable as change.

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it… Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

We were old sinners – but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.

Custom reconciles us to everything.