Fear clogs; faith liberates.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

I look at where I’m at today and realize that most of my success is owed to the mentors that was in my life.

It doesn’t matter who likes you or doesn’t like you, all that matters is that God likes you. He accepts you, he approves of you.

As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness and inertia, and all those things, I think we can transcend all that and set things straight.

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

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

I think I’m like most people – we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don’t deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it’s very hard not to be fearless.

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.

You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you’d experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.

My reputation grows with every failure.

For a long time, I had the idea that I would do a certain amount of work the best I could, and then I would reach a comfort zone, and I wouldn’t be pushed to write more. I would become a different person. It’s a surprise to me that this hasn’t happened. Your body ages, but your mind is the same.

I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends… Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

I always thought it was wrong for me to take credit for the work that I did. I don’t think that anymore.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.

There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

Everybody has a purpose.

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

If you’re in this business and you are scared, then you better do something else.

He who doesn’t pray to the Lord prays to the devil.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

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

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

I used to have insecurity about my finances, then I announced that I had debt, and now I don’t have any insecurities.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

I’ve been called a moron since I was about four. My father called me a moron. My grandfather said I was a moron. And a lot of times when I’m driving, I hear I’m a moron. I like being a moron.

What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don’t actually improve their lives.

We are wiser than we know.

I have a strong feeling that I shall be glad when I am dead and done for – scrapped at last to make room for somebody better, cleverer, more perfect than myself.

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

‚Happiness‘ is a pointless goal.

Never complain. Never explain.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.

We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

I believe the American people have a genuine and justifiable fear of government intrusion in what they instinctively know is going to be an ever more intrusive world.

The Bible says that God has a reason for keeping us here; if He didn’t, He would take us to Heaven far sooner.