I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.

If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

Seemingly, man has learned to live without God, preoccupied and indifferent toward Him and concerned only about material security and pleasure.

All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.

Being a good listener is absolutely critical to being a good leader; you have to listen to the people who are on the front line.

What I have never been afraid of is to be a little silly, and you can engage people that way. My view is, first you get them to laugh, then you get them to listen.

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

My mother raised me with God. We were poor financially, but we were rich spiritually.

I hope that Facebook and other Internet technologies were able to help people, just like we hope that we help them communicate and organize and do whatever they want to every single day, but I don’t pretend that if Facebook didn’t exist, that this wouldn’t even be possible. Of course, it would have.

I don’t believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.

It’s a mystery. That’s the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it’s mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.

I don’t like talking to celebrities.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

I don’t need therapy. I’m not going to see a therapist; comedy acts as my therapy. I put my problems out there. I talk about them. I talk about everything before anybody has a chance.

I’m working at trying to be a Christian, and that’s serious business. It’s like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy – it’s serious business.

People are looking for something a little more stable; people are feeling like they need to get closer to God.

Sometimes when you take strong stands, if you’re not called to do it, you’re dividing the audience you’re trying to reach.

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

I’m really bad with answering questions. Usually, I don’t even answer them. I try to find inspiration inside of the question. I think, and I jump from one beam of inspiration or energy to the next, as opposed to explaining the energy.

I’ve been a lot more into Facebook and Twitter and Instagram, which was a bit complicated for me to understand the language of each social media, because they all talk in different ways. It’s a nice way for me to tell people I appreciate them, which I forget to do sometimes.

The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.

You might be the funniest guy in the world, but if you don’t have anything to talk about, people are eventually going to gravitate towards the guy that’s actually saying something.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

My mother always used to say, ‚Well, if you had been born a little girl growing up in Egypt, you would go to church or go to worship Allah, but surely if those people are worshipping a God, it must be the same God‘ – that’s what she always said. The same God with different names.

I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.

Your body has space within you that cannot die.

Be not a slave of words.

After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one’s person.

I think Bible principles are principles for life.

Humans cannot avoid trying to influence others. Everything we say or do is examined and interpreted by others for clues as to our intentions.

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

Sure I believe in God and the Devil, but they don’t have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

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.

If one plays good music, people don’t listen and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

I’m sure most parents read to their children to explain what certain things mean. So books are a good way to convey a message to anybody. Everybody reads.

One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.

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

I don’t like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.

If God dropped acid, would he see people?

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

A yawn is a silent shout.

There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

God wants to bless us where we are.

One of my direct subordinates, one of my guys that worked for me, he would call me up or pull me aside with some major problem, some issue that was going on. And he’d say, ‚Boss, we’ve got this, and that, and the other thing.‘ And I’d look at him and I’d say, ‚Good.‘

My daughter doesn’t even get my humor. She’s like, ‚Um, no. I don’t get it, Dad. Mmm, no, not that one, Dad.‘

Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.