It is a hard thing to let go of mistakes we’ve made and sins. God wants us to do that because He knows the guilt and the condemnation will keep us from becoming who He has created us to be.

If you realize all the time what’s kind of wonderful – that is, if we expand our experience into wilder and wilder regions of experience – every once in a while, we have these integrations when everything’s pulled together into a unification, in which it turns out to be simpler than it looked before.

I am who I am. That’s why my friends and peers respect and appreciate me. I don’t change or cater my actions to fit my surroundings. I’m myself 24/7. People appreciate that.

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn’t do well at all.

How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I’ll say that. Wonder and terror.

Only the insecure strive for security.

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

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.

If you’re not ready for everything, you’re not ready for anything.

I can imagine it’s hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn’t know.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‚Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.‘

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

You can’t forgive without loving. And I don’t mean sentimentality. I don’t mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, ‚I forgive. I’m finished with it.‘

I am, as a character, at times, a little overbearing. I recognize that.

I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

I’m almost like three people. There’s me the, Dolly, the person. There’s me, the star. And then there’s me, the manager.

I realize I don’t do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

Overall there’s going to be things I’m not great at.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

I think, when you are growing up, you have to pull apart from what your mother wants or needs. You’ve got to go your own way, and that’s what I did.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.

By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you’re aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.

Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing – hopefully.

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.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

Love is a state of being.

We’re all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.

The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosopher’s or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself, and that is why you must know yourself – Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self.

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

For a person who grew up in the ’30s and ’40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, ‚Here I am, read me.‘ Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.

I don’t have any regrets. I made all my own decisions.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

You aren’t your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family… your anything. You’re a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth.

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, ‚Did you sleep good?‘ I said ‚No, I made a few mistakes.‘

Humble people ask for help.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.

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

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.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is still there, but one could almost say that something more powerful shines through the person.

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.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?

I always wanted a family.

I haven’t changed at all. I’m the same as when I was 11.

Peace in the world starts with peace in oneself. If everyone lives mindfully, everyone will be more healthy, feel more fulfilled in their daily lives and there will be more peace.