Any time we are misused or used for a purpose other than what God intended us for, it’s damaging.

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.

The fact is, violence is not only not a beautiful thing, but it’s also very painful and not without consequences for the perpetrator as well as the victim.

There’s place and means for every man alive.

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God – but to create him.

Don’t give in to excuses that can keep you from really living the best life God has for you.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

I’ve always been – you know, my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so I’m just being who God made me to be.

There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.

Be not simply good – be good for something.

Every guilty person is his own hangman.

It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don’t want victories anymore.

Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.

We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we’ve chosen to do with our life.

So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.

I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion by which you make the decisions.

If I hit a man, his head is gonna go into the bleachers.

I was sure I’d set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth – that I hadn’t set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if ‚The Big Trail‘ had been a success and launched me as a star.

I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you’re a person of influence and a person of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‚I used everything you gave me‘.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

An overflow of good converts to bad.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.

I didn’t mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‚What are you doing for others?‘

Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.

Consequences are unpitying.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

From my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my mind.

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

At Real, psychological pressure on the players is much more serious than at United. This is good. At many clubs, you don’t know the consequence of playing badly.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.

Our intention creates our reality.

We often represent God to ourselves as being able to draw from non-being a world without sorrows, faults, dangers – a world in which there is no damage, no breakage. This is a conceptual fantasy and makes it impossible to solve the problem of evil.

Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that’s important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.

Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

I have retired, but if there’s anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that’s their gift.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

Sometimes, I think if you get away from what you’re called to do, it’s more of a distraction.

I never have an intended audience. I just write, you know.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

If you’re going to do something tonight that you’ll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.

What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.