As the father of eight children, I’m quite convinced that each individual arrives here with their own unique personality. We are intended here from an invisible held of infinite potentiality. That which has no form, has no boundaries – it’s the I that’s in the ever-changing body.

Development of outlook naturally begins with a respect for God… Reverence to God and reverence for one’s neighbor and reverence for oneself as a servant of God.

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.

I didn’t try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music – which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there’s no dream that’s too big.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

I like to recede away from classifications. You might say that indicates a fundamental lack of commitment. I suppose that’s true to some degree.

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, ‚O God, forgive me,‘ or ‚Help me.‘

God’s love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

I didn’t start sweating until I had children. That was one of the first things I realized when my daughter Violet was born – I started getting wicked BO. You know there’s a difference between basketball BO and stress BO? This was definitely stress BO. Like, new dad BO.

I make a lot of expressions constantly. I’m animated.

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

For me, it’s about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It’s where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that’s very important to me.

As soon as I go out into the world, I belong, in a way, to everyone else. It’s legal to follow me. It’s legal to stalk me at the beach. And I can’t call the police or ask them to leave.

I’m super self-critical, which I think is good, because then I get exactly what I want. I’m critical of other people, too – I try not to be, though.

I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn’t mean I don’t get frustrated in my life. My way of dealing with frustration is to shut down and to think and speak logically.

Being brought up very religious, I have a fear of people that look to idol gods.

Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

When I had to make a decision whether or not an activity was appropriate for the Sabbath, I simply asked myself, ‚What sign do I want to give to God?‘ That question made my choices about the Sabbath day crystal clear.

A covenant made with God should be regarded not as restrictive but as protective.

My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.

Reactive people… are often affected by their physical environment. They find external sources to blame for their behavior.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

I was raised in a religious environment, and my wife is one of the more religious people that I have ever known.

I’d like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit.

God made me and broke the mold.

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.

If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.

Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

I tend to overthink things. I’m not the guy who screams ‚This is a world smash!‘ when I finish a song.

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

We’re not like robots. God promises to guide us through the Holy Spirit, but He gives us the freedom to make our own decisions.

Who I am on stage is very, very different to who I am in real life.

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

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.

I’m not a complete psychopath. Am I partially? Sure. I’ll accept that. But I’m not a complete psychopath.

I have a heart of gold, but I’m really a marshmallow in my heart.

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn’t always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.

A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.

I just want to lobby for God.

If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?

We are wiser than we know.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

I put my flaws on front street. So the world accepted my flaws, so I don’t have any flaws.

What people see on court is another side of me; it’s not me.

Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.

If something inconveniences my children too much or takes me away from them, I won’t do it.