I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.

As I get older, I tend to put more into family than I used to.

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

If you haven’t forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others.

It’s easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

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.

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?

I’m honest enough to say I don’t know everything. You know, I don’t. I don’t understand all of God. I don’t understand, you know, some kind of why bad things happen.

When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you’ll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Each day provides its own gifts.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

When you realize who you live for, and who’s important to please, a lot of people will actually start living. I am never going to get caught up in that. I’m gonna look back on my life and say that I enjoyed it – and I lived it for me.

Your emotions are very unstable and should never be the foundation for direction in your life.

I don’t think a lot of people know personally who I am.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did – which was to hide.

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

By the time you’ve reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching, you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence.

We have a choice about how we take what happens to us in our life and whether or not we allow it to turn us. We can become consumed by hate and darkness, or we’re able to regain our humanity somehow, or come to terms with things and learn something about ourselves.

I get nervous when I don’t get nervous. If I’m nervous I know I’m going to have a good show.

When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.

There’s not some idea I’m going to create a work that’s going to change everybody’s consciousness.

One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.

It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.

I don’t want to be something that just comes and goes.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

Success is always dangerous, and we need to be alert and avoid becoming the victims of our own success. Will we influence the world for Christ, or will the world influence us?

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life’s not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

Yeah, I was a delinquent. It was when I was in the ninth grade. I was doing stupid stuff, and the cops came into the class. I was humiliated more than anything.

Do the best you can, and don’t take life too serious.

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

‚They‘ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‚they.‘ You might have a personal ‚they.‘ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‚they.‘

I don’t go around thinking I’m Ray Bradbury all the time.

I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing.

My whole life has been one big improvisation.

For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

You can never get enough of what you don’t want.

It’s hard for anybody who’s been with me not to feel starved for affection when I’m making love to my ideas. Maybe it’s not meant for me to settle down and be married.

I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.

Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

I’ve always had a problem with the average macho man – they’ve always been a threat to me.

Prayer doesn’t just change things – it changes us. If we are diligent in seeking God, slowly and surely we become better people.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

I’ve never been reckless – it’s always calculated. I’m mischievous, but I’m calculated.

There are two kinds of people in this world. ‚I‘ people and ‚we‘ people. I’ve always tried to be a ‚we‘ person.

We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.

The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist.