If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

Yeah, I like to keep myself interested – I’ll kind of throw myself into some area that I don’t completely know or understand, that I’m not adept at, so I’m forced to swim in order to stay afloat. There’s a good feeling that comes from that.

I wish they would only take me as I am.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

Debates, I hate.

Someone told me something that stuck with me: ‚You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.‘ I’ve been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I’m just backtracking and trying to get back up there.

You know, it’s not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth… That’s the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn’t get some of that stuff out.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

Billy Graham is one of my great lifetime heroes. I think he epitomizes the essence of what a Christian leader should be. I have participated in some of his crusades a couple of times in Atlanta. I’ve seen the profound impact he’s had on me personally, and on other people who were not Christians and accepted Christ as Savior.

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

Let not a libation of tears be the only offering at the shrine of Jesus; let us also rejoice with joy unspeakable. If we have need to lament our sin, how much more to rejoice at our pardon!

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what’s mine.

The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord’s mercy motivates us to do better.

Now I will say this to every sinner, though he should think himself to be the worst sinner who ever lived: cry to the Lord and seek Him while He may be found. A throne of grace is a place fitted for you. By simple faith, go to your Savior, for He is the throne of grace.

You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred.

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

I have surrounded myself with very smart people.

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

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.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

All of our problems start in our minds.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other’s folly – that is the first law of nature.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

We have communion with Christ in His thoughts, views, and purposes; for His thoughts are our thoughts according to our capacity and sanctity. Believers take the same view of matters as Jesus does; that which pleases Him pleases them, and that which grieves His grieves them also.

If in prayer I come before a throne of grace, the faults of my prayer will be overlooked.

I believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I’m not here to preach hate or push people down.

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness.

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

It is amazing how a new child can refocus one’s direction seconds after its birth.

What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it’s because that’s what’s inside.

I don’t regret anything.

If you’re serious, you really understand that it’s important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you’re the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you’re funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.

I don’t care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Although I don’t have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.

I have learned that as long as I hold fast to my beliefs and values – and follow my own moral compass – then the only expectations I need to live up to are my own.

Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.

When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

The day you stop doing the small things is the day you think you’re above everybody else.

I understand aggressiveness in only one way: being prepared to hurt yourself, not someone else.

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

I think it’s a very good thing to leave your country and look at it from afar.

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.