I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.

Occasionally, some brother sings very earnestly through his nose, often disturbing those around him, but it does not matter how the voice sounds to the ears of man. What is important is how the heart sounds to the ears of God.

There is nothing so stable as change.

God’s mercy and grace give me hope – for myself, and for our world.

I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us.

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

Man’s true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.

I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn’t going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I’ve ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn’t want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.

I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live and could not spare any more time for that one.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Since the team understands that the leader is de facto in charge, in that respect, a leader has nothing to prove. But in another respect, a leader has everything to prove: Every member of the team must develop the trust and confidence that their leader will exercise good judgment, remain calm, and make the right decisions when it matters most.

I’ve taught a lot about prayer over the years and how it is really just talking to God.

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

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

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

We are not without empathetic terror when we open Pascal’s ‚Pensees‘ and read, ‚I am the great silent spaces between worlds.‘

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering – an image of death.

Duty cannot exist without faith.

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don’t dictate my happiness, my inner peace.

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.

I was raised a Catholic on both sides of the family. I went to a Catholic grade school and thought everybody in the country was Catholic, because that’s all I ever was associated with.

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.

Those who have been writing literature have not been writing life.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

As apostles and prophets, we are concerned not only for our children and grandchildren but for yours as well – and for each of God’s children.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

My mother told me, ‚Son, nobody else but God knows.‘ And that’s what I’m about – reaching out to the people, crying with them, giving them hope. Visiting the hospital, visiting the kids with cancer, visiting the adults, and stuff like that. That’s what I do.

I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman’s equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

I’m not sure what you need first – the players believing or others believing in them – but in the end, both have to think it.

Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive – that you can touch the miracle of being alive – then that is a kind of enlightenment.

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.

When I’m in management meetings when we’re deciding my future, those decisions are left up to me. I’m the one who has to go out and fulfill all these obligations, so I should be able to choose which ones I do or not. That’s the part of my life where I feel most in control.

Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.

It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person. So violence isn’t merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

We think that life develops spontaneously on Earth, so it must be possible for life to develop on suitable planets elsewhere in the universe. But we don’t know the probability that a planet develops life.

If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man’s self.

He that does good to another does good also to himself.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

Bottom line: God will not allow any person to keep you from your destiny. They may be bigger, stronger, or more powerful, but God knows how to shift things around and get you to where you’re supposed to be.

If God dropped acid, would he see people?

We misjudge risk if we feel we have some control over it, even if it’s an illusory sense of control.

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death’s the other.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.