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

When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

I want to challenge you today to get out of your comfort zone. You have so much incredible potential on the inside. God has put gifts and talents in you that you probably don’t know anything about.

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.

How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before.

I guess I have a little bit of an ego. I’m confidently cocky, you might say.

We should take care not to make the intellect our goal; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

When I was 8 years old I became a mute and was a mute until I was 13, and I thought of my whole body as an ear, so I can go into a crowd and sit still and absorb all sound. That talent or ability has lasted and served me until today.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.

You gotta keep trying to find your niche and trying to fit into whatever slot that’s left for you or to make one of your own.

I couldn’t go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.

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.

My music seems to have a bigger mission than I have, which is very soothing but also very strange because people see more in me than I see, which can be terrifying.

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.

I’ve learned a lot since I was a new mother. My approach to struggle and shame now is to talk to yourself like you’d talk to someone you love and reach out to tell your story.

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can’t get bitter, we can’t get jaded.

I don’t mind people hating me, because it pushes me.

I lived a sloppy life. So I took very small increments in my life. I started making my bed. I started cleaning my room. There were dishes in the sink. It started off with doing small house chores. I saw that the yard needed to be mowed. So instead of being told it needed to be mowed, I would mow it.

God didn’t make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God… If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

Meditation is not following any system; it is not constant repetition and imitation. Meditation is not concentration.

As the father of eight children, I’m quite convinced that each individual arrives here with their own unique personality. We are intended here from an invisible held of infinite potentiality. That which has no form, has no boundaries – it’s the I that’s in the ever-changing body.

I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it’s spoken.

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

The question is not, ‚Do you have a problem?‘ The question is, ‚Does the problem have you?‘

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

In the morning, I practice 15 minutes of yoga.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

The self is hateful.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

Cowardice… is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

There’s a difference in thinking you are a champion and knowing that you are.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

I have no delusions about my likability in every scenario. I know that in order to get things done the way you want them, oftentimes your position will be unpopular.

Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

Be content to seem what you really are.

There’s something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.

Life is precious.

I’m always cast in these strange men… that’s not me, really.

I’ve never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

To me, my house is always recreating what I lost in youth.

It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

When I was into my 30s, I became increasingly depressed by rejection letters. I had had the feeling that by the time I was 30, I would be established. But I was not at all. By the time of ‚Lives of Girls and Women,‘ I was into my 40s and I had become more thin-skinned.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the Enemy can be our own thoughts.

Even with my divorce and with everything, I don’t need money.

‚Victory Lap,‘ even the title. It’s the accumulation of trial and error; that’s what I represent; trial and error.

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.