Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.

Swearing is industry language. For as long as we’re alive it’s not going to change. You’ve got to be boisterous to get results.

Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church.

I make friends faster and easier than journalists.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator.

I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I’m praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I’m grateful that I’m heard.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems – most life situations are – but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

Charm is a way of getting the answer ‚Yes‘ without asking a clear question.

If I forget to pray, I can’t get through the day without snapping at people.

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

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.

Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn’t mean anything else.

The secret of being a bore… is to tell everything.

I hope that Facebook and other Internet technologies were able to help people, just like we hope that we help them communicate and organize and do whatever they want to every single day, but I don’t pretend that if Facebook didn’t exist, that this wouldn’t even be possible. Of course, it would have.

I want to be a man who is truthful and who won’t let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, ‚Here I am. This is me.‘ I feel there’s something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!

Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.

I don’t hate women – they just sometimes make me mad.

I am in my own head most of the time.

Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

Back, you know, a few generations ago, people didn’t have a way to share information and express their opinions efficiently to a lot of people. But now they do. Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they’re thinking and have their voice be heard.

I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I’m on course, and I’m doing what God wants me to do. I’m real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

I had a great time being a salesman because of the pitches that I gave when I was selling shoes. However, I don’t think I’m as well versed in shoes as I am in comedy. Being a salesman was all about being a people person, and I enjoy being around people. I also love talking to people – which is why I think I did so well.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

Each day we understand better what the Indians say, and they us, so that very often we are intelligible to each other.

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

One word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweler, shaping and hammering out the promise for a number of weeks.

I haven’t gone out of my way to seek advice from people I don’t know.

In this quest to seek and find God in all things, there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day’s own trouble be sufficient for the day.

To meditate means to go home to yourself. Then you know how to take care of the things that are happening inside you, and you know how to take care of the things that happen around you.

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

I believe that when you think of the negative, and you get up discouraged – ‚There’s nothing good in my future‘ – I really believe it almost ties the hands of God. God works where there’s an attitude of faith. I believe faith is all about hope.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

People don’t realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.

I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.

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

When I looked at the third base coach, he turned his back on me.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

A man is more frank and sincere with his emotions than a woman. We girls, I’m afraid, have a tendency to hide our feelings.

Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this – that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made – not to understand – but to feel – as crime.

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching. They may awaken simply because they can’t stand the suffering anymore.

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.

Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

If I’m in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person’s side of the case at least as well as they could. One has to be able to say that in any well-conducted argument.

A saint serves others, knowing that the more one serves, the greater the opportunity for the Spirit to sanctify and purify.

The universe is not indifferent to our existence – it depends on it.

I think there’s a lot of similarity between what people try to do with religion with what they want from art. In fact, I very specifically think that they are same thing. Not that religion and art are the same, but that they both tap into the same need we have for surrender.

I don’t let my religious world get too complicated.

I used to meditate all the time in bed. That was when I was raising my daughter, and I’d get her up and off to school, and then I would go back to bed and meditate. And then I would do the same in the evening, and that was very good for that period because I had so many things to juggle as a single mother.