For me, it’s about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It’s where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that’s very important to me.

With all the… success that I’ve been lucky enough to get? That doesn’t happen unless the home life is solid.

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.

Let go of yesterday. Let today be a new beginning and be the best that you can, and you’ll get to where God wants you to be.

My philosophy is it’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

Brad was a huge surprise to me. I think we were both the last two people who were looking for a relationship. I certainly wasn’t. I was quite content to be a single mom with Mad.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

I’m not happy all the time, and I wouldn’t want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.

Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ.

I’m sure a lot of people out there make mistakes.

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves – and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

I don’t like being alone.

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.

If I think too hard about a relationship, I’ll talk myself out of it.

I’m an introvert somewhat. There could be a room full of people, I’ll go stand in the corner.

It’s not proper for the government to intrude too thoroughly into the domain of the family. It’s inappropriate.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

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.

I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

What the heck is true love? I remember feeling, back when I was 12 and ‚going‘ with this girl, ‚Is this true love?‘

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.

My mother made me truly appreciate women.

Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night’s date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn’t think of looking at another woman.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

I boldly assert, in fact I think I know, that a lot of friendships and connections absolutely depend upon a sort of shared language, or slang. Not necessarily designed to exclude others, this can establish a certain comity and, even after a long absence, re-establish it in a second.

I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

I got a greater purpose. God put something in my heart to get across, and that’s what I’m going to focus on, using my voice as an instrument and doing what needs to be done.

There was something undifferentiated and yet complete, which existed before Heaven and Earth. Soundless and formless, it depends on nothing and does not change. It operates everywhere and is free from danger. It may be considered the mother of the universe. I do not know its name; I call it Tao.

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

God is speaking to us. But are we listening to Him? When our conscience begins to nudge us for whatever reason, we might have this low-level misery or uneasiness about whatever it is we’ve done or we’re about to do. At times like this, it’s wise to prayerfully consider whether we’re offending God with our actions.

Obviously, you go through a lot of emotional turmoil in a divorce.

When Jesus comes to live in our hearts, the seed of holiness is planted.

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

There is an afterlife. I am convinced of this.

I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.

I’ve never been a hands-on dad. I’m not ashamed to admit it, but you can’t run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.

In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.

The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.