He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

When people say, you know, ‚Good teacher,‘ ‚Prophet,‘ ‚Really nice guy’… this is not how Jesus thought of Himself. So you’re left with a challenge in that, which is either Jesus was who he said he was or a complete and utter nut case. You have to make a choice on that.

Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving.

In the Church, and in the journey of faith, women have had and still have a special role in opening doors to the Lord.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

It is a common saying, and in everybody’s mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

A president has an inescapable responsibility to provide direction: What are we trying to achieve? What are we trying to prevent? Why? To do that, he has to both analyze and reflect.

I do sometimes look back at things I’ve written in the past, and think, ‚I just don’t remember being the person who wrote that.‘

When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was going to die one day, and myself too. I had a sort of a philosophical crisis. I couldn’t believe that we were mortal.

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people’s opinions will rush in from all quarters.

People who say they don’t care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don’t care what people think.

Be as you wish to seem.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It’s a death trap.

Spiritual people don’t float around all day on clouds of glory; they live in the real world and deal with real issues in real ways.

Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn’t, then why would you say I am.

Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn’t even know you’d done.

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

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.

What’s the greater risk? Letting go of what people think – or letting go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?

There’s plenty about God that I don’t understand and can’t explain. But I come back to my core belief that God is good, that He’s for us.

I’m not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I’m not dumb… and I also know that I’m not blonde.

From my point of view, God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve it, and a spark of divine light is within each of us.

People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.

We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men… We are who we are because they were who they were. It’s wise to know where you come from, who called your name.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

Catering to bad feelings feeds and empowers them.

I’m considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I’ve never been bored in my life.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one’s self.

If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.

I don’t want to be too critical of what other people do, but when people go back to do the same thing that they did, I’m completely confused. I’m like, ‚Didn’t you make that movie already?‘ I’ve been very fortunate, and I’m well taken care of, so the least I can do is try to go forward.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

I believe God gives you the grace to do what you need to do.

Philosophy begins in wonder.

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn’t do to upset one’s own vanity.

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

The only answer to fear is faith in God, knowing He loves you unconditionally and individually.

There is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship; nothing that can satisfy but Christ.

I think I have always had a little humor.

Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.

I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.

God doesn’t do things halfway. He goes all out! When God does something, it’s not just barely enough, mediocre or lukewarm.

We are in a far better position to observe instincts in animals or in primitives than in ourselves. This is due to the fact that we have grown accustomed to scrutinizing our own actions and to seeking rational explanations for them.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

There are some Christian people who taste and see and enjoy religion in their own souls, and who get at a deeper knowledge of it than books can ever give them, though they should search all their days.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

My number one thing? Don’t overleverage yourself. Don’t say you can do something when you really can’t.

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

I have trouble with letting go. That’s my problem.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.