I’ve never been a jealous person, and I’ve never felt built up by someone else’s failure – that’s a cheap thrill.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

I’m no genius.

By indignities men come to dignities.

I use a stream-of-consciousness approach; if you don’t censor yourself, you end up with what you’re most concerned about, but you haven’t filtered it through your conscious mind. Then you craft it.

If you’re in a workplace you don’t like right now, be encouraged because God will use it for your good. Think about it this way: He wants you to be a light in the darkness – and He’s putting His confidence in you!

Of what use is a philosopher who doesn’t hurt anybody’s feelings?

I have survivor’s curiosity, I guess.

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – never knowing.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

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.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

Everyone is different. Everyone has different teams they’ve played on, coaches they’ve played for.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

I got the stern end of the stick. It was kind of that iron fist. I am who I am today because of my mother.

Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.

When you’re in prison, you want to know that you were thought about.

We don’t get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

There is no man on Earth or devil in Hell who can keep you from the very best God put in you.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

Brad was a huge surprise to me. I think we were both the last two people who were looking for a relationship. I certainly wasn’t. I was quite content to be a single mom with Mad.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

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

Transforming yourself into a deep listener will not only prove more amusing as you open your mind to their mind, but you will gain the most invaluable lessons about human psychology.

You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that’s something that we should think about.

Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.

From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That’s what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

I’m trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It’s so easy to get turned.

I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should have.

Life’s too short to deal with other people’s insecurities.

My message is that God is a good God.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won’t presume to probe into the faults of others.

As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.

My work is the only ground I’ve ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation, but I’m working on the foundation.

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

Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.

Having a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing seems to me to be one of the most basic principles that you can adopt to contribute to individual and world peace.

One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what’s really happening to me, even if it’s a tough pill to swallow for people around me… I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.

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

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.

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.

On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we’re going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

When you truly accept that those children in some far off place in the global village have the same value as you in God’s eyes or even in just your eyes, then your life is forever changed; you see something that you can’t un-see.

I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and… I believe in miracles.

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.

Chaos is a friend of mine.

One of the things I’ve never been accused of is not caring about people.

Have you ever asked yourselves what you are going to do when you grow up? In all likelihood you will get married, and before you know where you are, you will be mothers and fathers; and you will then be tied to a job, or to the kitchen, in which you will gradually wither away. Is that all that your life is going to be?