It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you’ll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

You have enough people against you… be for yourself.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

If someone decides they’re not going to be happy, it’s not your problem. You don’t have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

It is not the body’s posture, but the heart’s attitude that counts when we pray.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can’t be wrong whose life is in the right.

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

If you’re doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don’t know what was going on in the person’s mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him.

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he’s well dressed. There ain’t much credit in that.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can’t see from the center.

My whole life has been one big improvisation.

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

‚Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

I thank God I’m myself and for the life I’m given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.

My life has been very full.

This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

Everybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

There are alway going to be bad things. But you can write it down and make a song out of it.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

I don’t want flowers or candy or anything like that. I just want somebody to say, ‚Wow, you’ve done a great job.‘

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

People see things differently and remember things differently. It’s why if somebody robs a liquor store and there are four witnesses they’ll often disagree.

I think that God gives you your own will and choices. I don’t believe that we’re supposed to drag ourselves through life defeated and not see God’s blessings. But you have to make the right choices and follow that still, small voice within you. Because I think that’s how God leads us.

You know when you’re young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they’re trying to be old men and they have no idea what that’s like? It’s just that stupid the other way around.

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

Sin is geographical.

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

Which death is preferably to every other? ‚The unexpected‘.

I was looking for something a lot heavier, yet melodic at the same time. Something different from heavy metal, a different attitude.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

I’ll die a crazy old man!

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

The future will be better tomorrow.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

God is a great God! I want to encourage you to expect great things from Him.

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!

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Do creative, social, and civic attitudes change depending on where we live? Yes, I think so.

Don’t tell your problems to people: eighty percent don’t care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.