Fear is present when we forget that we are a part of God’s divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego’s insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant light of love that is always with you.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o‘ the flatterer.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

I’ve lived a very colorful life, and I’ve said some things, But not once have I taken them back, and I’ve never apologized for them – and I won’t.

Religions get lost as people do.

People react to fear, not love; they don’t teach that in Sunday School, but it’s true.

Whatever is making you so angry, it’s time for you to give it to God and get over it.

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children. I know, because for many years my life was not peaceful, and I was miserable.

All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it.

I was inspired to spend an entire year – my 65th year – reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu’s messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.

I’m pretty sure I don’t have any songs that are about how much I love someone. They’re all either about, like, ‚I hate you,‘ or ‚You make me hate me.‘

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organize a belief.

Prayer is a confession of one’s own unworthiness and weakness.

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it’s wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

There’s nothing better than having a baby. I’ve always loved children. I used to work summers at the YMCA and be in charge of, like, 30 preschool kids. I knew that when I had a child, I’d be overwhelmed, and it’s true… I can’t tell you how much my attitude has changed since we’ve got Frances. Holding my baby is the best drug in the world.

Marriage is the most wonderful thing ever.

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions. There are a good many points about which I may be diffident, but when it comes to questions of Truth and intellectual independence, there is no holding me – I can envisage no finer end than to sacrifice oneself for a conviction.

I think what’s important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.

I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back.

Every natural object is a conductor of divinity and only by coming into contact with them… may we be filled with the Holy Ghost.

Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That’s definitely my first response. I think change is more likely to happen if both partners have common language and a shared lens to see problems.

To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody’s mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I’m writing about New York.

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

I don’t know who I touch and who I don’t. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don’t have any secrets. I don’t know the reasons I’ve been so well received.

Rebellion is what you make of it. When you’ve been on a tour bus for two months straight, and then you get in your car and drive wherever you want, that can feel rebellious.

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

Certain though I am – and ever more certain – that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Believing is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith.

White people just don’t want their slaves to be free. That’s the whole thing.

Ritual is another word for fear, manifested in a different way.

Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

The best road to progress is freedom’s road.

The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it’s almost impossible to stamp out.

People like music when they’re in love, but they don’t need it as much. You need music when you’re missing someone or you’re pining for someone or you’re forgetting someone or you’re trying to process what just happened.

I’ve discovered that when we take time to renew our minds with God’s Word, we learn how to think like God thinks, say what God says, and act like He wants us to act.

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

If someone is right for you, you’ll know it.

I’ve told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn’t kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.

I was fortunate and I was lucky that I had a couple of people in my life who cared about me. I had good, loving parents.

I try to not focus on what people expect from me.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.

As a sportsperson, the best thing is people recognising you and loving you for what you do. For me, glamour is 100 people in the hotel feeling happy to see you.

Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice… No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.

How much better it would be if all could be more aware of God’s providence and love and express that gratitude to Him.

The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.

I’m a free spirit.

Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.