Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.

I’m not frightened of appearing vulnerable.

I have great respect for the past. If you don’t know where you’ve come from, you don’t know where you’re going. I have respect for the past, but I’m a person of the moment. I’m here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I’m at, then I go forward to the next place.

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values – that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.

Lots of songs aren’t even from my experiences, but they’re about accepting… the dark things about yourself.

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

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

It is always your next move.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Do not rebuke mockers, or they will hate you; rebuke the wise, and they will love you.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

My mother always used to say, ‚Well, if you had been born a little girl growing up in Egypt, you would go to church or go to worship Allah, but surely if those people are worshipping a God, it must be the same God‘ – that’s what she always said. The same God with different names.

Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.

I always ask God to work through me and let me be a light of some kind and help in this world, so I always pray for that, and I always want to do good.

Women. They are a complete mystery.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.

The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don’t know nothing. I mean, that’s my life lesson.

In one day, I have times where I’m feeling great, I feel like I love my life, and then 2:30 rolls around and I’m the angriest man alive. My wife sees it.

You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.

Isn’t it amazing that we are all made in God’s image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?

It’s very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.

Always say ‚yes‘ to the present moment… Surrender to what is. Say ‚yes‘ to life – and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.

I’ve done a lot of things I’m not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that.

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don’t give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

I always put myself out there. I’m not afraid to commit to something.

My wife thinks she’s better than me at puzzles. I haven’t given in on that one yet.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.

Start your week off right by getting back to what is really important – honoring God.

Faith is the complete reliance on the power and goodness of Spirit and the firm belief that you are always connected to this goodness. Always affirm your faith and not your doubt.

When I get married, it’ll be no secret.

The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.

Sometimes you can’t prioritise family and you feel guilty.

I don’t know what drives me to succeed.

Remember that life’s big changes rarely give advance warning.

I’m not sure if it’s good to have freedom or not. I’m really confused now.

I think that we have opportunities all around us – sometimes we just don’t recognize them.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

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.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

Basically my wife was immature. I’d be at home in the bath and she’d come in and sink my boats.

Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that’s all. So we direct our values to material things.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

It’s normal for human beings to identify with their own separate self. The problem is that we get caught in that notion of ourself as a separate individual and caught in that individual self’s agenda.

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.

Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.

Let go of offence. Let go of fear. Let go of revenge. Don’t live angry, let go now!

Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It’s the magic sauce.

Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.