Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

God always has patience.

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

I guess every single word I’ve ever said is going to be dissected now.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

There are going to be things I’m not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

I always try to put a seed of hope into people’s hearts. I’m not there to teach them doctrine necessarily, but to let them know that God is a good God, and has a plan for their lives. Hopefully, that will restore their faith, or draw them into faith.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

There’s no way to remove the observer – us – from our perceptions of the world.

You don’t have to be like everybody else or do things like everybody else. God created you to be a unique individual, and He wants you to be free to be who He made you to be.

It’s easy to forget who you are.

I’m happy being myself, which I’ve never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn’t have those things in mine.

We have a choice about how we take what happens to us in our life and whether or not we allow it to turn us. We can become consumed by hate and darkness, or we’re able to regain our humanity somehow, or come to terms with things and learn something about ourselves.

I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America’s really large shadow and that’s not all that bad.

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.

Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

There are a lot of people who don’t know me and what I am all about.

Be as you wish to seem.

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

I’m not claiming divinity. I’ve never claimed purity of soul. I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can… But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It’s in your mind. We’re all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war.

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

I am who I am and I say what I think. I’m not putting a face on for the record.

Ethiopia didn’t just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, ‚Would you take my son with you?‘ He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

I’m concerned that my technical skills have advanced to the point where I can get closer to what I’m aiming for, which is not such a good thing.

There’s a difference in thinking you are a champion and knowing that you are.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

Our necessities never equal our wants.

The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

We cannot live being obsessed with what other people think about us. It’s impossible to live like that. Not even God managed to please the entire world.

I think faith is incredibly important because you will become overwhelmed with what’s happening and you will have waves of grief, but when you turn to your faith, I believe God will give you waves of grace to get through it.

Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I’m referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man.

You know, my family and friends have never been yes-men: ‚Yes, you’re doing the right thing, you’re always right.‘ No, they tell me when I’m wrong, and that’s why I’ve been able to stay who I am and stay humble.

I didn’t want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn’t like it. I always wanted to do other things.

I can handle pain.

What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it’s because that’s what’s inside.

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

I am God’s vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

He chose to honor us with His priesthood. So we honor Him by honoring His priesthood – both its power and those who bear it.

What I have in common with the character in ‚Truman‘ is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

Well, I don’t think there’s any need for people to focus on my career.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others‘ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.

When you start to realise how much of what you’ve constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.

I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don’t know.

If it’s going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

Every human has four endowments – self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.