It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

I think, for years, people have been pushed down by religion, and I don’t say that disrespectfully, but they’ve been shown a God that you can’t measure up to.

I sometimes have a tendency to walk on the dark side.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has.

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

How does a nice Catholic girl end up going to prison for a year? It’s crazy. I’ve made mistakes. I have to pay for those mistakes.

If you’ve lost your spirit, even living in the richest country in the world can’t help you become rich.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately… you usually don’t use it at all. It uses you.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

My message isn’t perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

Don’t ever criticize yourself. Don’t go around all day long thinking, ‚I’m unattractive, I’m slow, I’m not as smart as my brother.‘ God wasn’t having a bad day when he made you… If you don’t love yourself in the right way, you can’t love your neighbour. You can’t be as good as you are supposed to be.

I have only one counsel for you – be master.

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‚I’ll buy a million dollars‘ worth of love.‘ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

The devil is a peace stealer, and he works hard to set us up to get upset. But we can learn how to change our approach so we don’t live upset all of the time. And Jesus gives us the best example to follow.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

My life is my message.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.

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.

Stay active. Read the Word. Worship with other believers. Continue to give. Keep learning and growing. Your faith will be unleashed!

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

We see the world not as it is, but as we are.

We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment.

I always have a full-length mirror next to the camera when I’m doing publicity stills. That way, I know how I look.

The mind of a 19-year-old is very different from the mind of a 26-year-old. You grow. You get into better relationships. You experience more, meet more people, better people. But when you’re in a dark hole at an earlier point in your life – you write about the mindset you’re in at that moment.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

There’s a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

I don’t have this feeling that 70 is really old.

I guess I have a little bit of an ego. I’m confidently cocky, you might say.

If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.

In my case Pilgrim’s Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

I’m always attracted to people who interest me. They’ve got to be people who are really true to themselves somehow, and who are always trying to do something that makes their life more interesting, or better, or something for somebody else. They’re interested in people.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

When I was a kid, I had a tendency to criticize. But when I did, my mum would whisk me off to the bathroom to stand in front of a mirror. Ten minutes, never less. To think about how criticism is a poor reflection on the one who criticizes.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.