I want to be just a pure spiritual leader.

My work is the only ground I’ve ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation, but I’m working on the foundation.

I can move any crowd.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

You don’t sign up for a divorce when you get married. It’s very painful. But it’s taught me a great deal about myself.

Every time you think the problem is ‚out there,‘ that very thought is the problem.

We become what we repeatedly do.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

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

Our necessities never equal our wants.

Prayer is simply talking to God like a friend and should be the easiest thing we do each day.

Some people can just let things go, but I can’t, especially if there’s something that worries me or makes me sad.

If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you’re solid, and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion.

Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take ten forward.

I think God’s justice is making wrongs right.

Example is leadership.

You cannot be President of the United States if you don’t have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

Wonder is the basis of worship.

Always do everything you ask of those you command.

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching. They may awaken simply because they can’t stand the suffering anymore.

I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.

As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.

Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.

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

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

When I was growing up, I wasn’t an extrovert. If anything, I was an introverted kid and a very average pupil at school. I was very quiet.

Make bold choices and make mistakes. It’s all those things that add up to the person you become.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‚always do what you are afraid to do.‘

The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

I even found it difficult to watch myself playing on TV because I couldn’t identify with the person on the screen. I couldn’t get to grips with it. It was as if it was all happening to someone else.

Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Jesus is a divine guest inside of you all the time – one who loves, understands, sees and hears you. He wants to live in oneness with you… to be the centerpiece of everything you do.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

The British people know that, given strong leadership, time, and a little bit of hope, the forces of good ultimately rally and triumph over evil.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going – I have no post-satisfaction.

Where would I be without baseball? Who am I without baseball?

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration… that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who’s occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can’t be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

It’s always appealing to play a character that has to overcome himself as well as an obstacle. It makes the drama so much deeper.

The great question of our time is, ‚Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?‘

I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when I didn’t write. I started again at 16 and have no idea why, but it was suddenly the only thing I wanted to do.

We should work with the principle that a work that can be done at a lower level should never be escalated to a higher level.

Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves.

I know I’m a good professional, I know that no one’s harder on me than myself and that’s never going to change, under any circumstances.

Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.