Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

I’m happiest with my family around me.

Dear friends, we may well sing to our Beloved when it is near the time of our departure. It draws near, and as it approaches, we must not dread it, but rather thank God for it.

Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.

I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

I particularly admire are Mark Twain and Jerome K. Jerome who wrote in a certain tone of voice which was humane and understanding of humanity, but always ready to annotate its little foibles. I think I’d lay my cards down on that, and say that it’s that that I’m trying to do.

The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.

Every natural object is a conductor of divinity and only by coming into contact with them… may we be filled with the Holy Ghost.

Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.

My purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their concepts. Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits. Seeing ourselves as spiritual beings without label is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity.

There’s love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we’re alone in our heads.

I must be cruel, only to be kind.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.

In assisting his ‚neighbour‘ every day to the best of his ability, and keeping truth, honesty, and kindness perpetually before him, the Boy Scout, with as little formality as possible, is pleasing God.

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Without Cambodia, I may never have become a mother. Part of my heart is and will always be in this country. And part of this country is always with me: Maddox.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally.

In Buddhist culture, offering food to the monk symbolizes the action of goodness, and if you have no opportunity to support the practice of spirituality, then you are somehow left in the realm of darkness.

It’s a mystery. That’s the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it’s mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek – I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man.

Understand: any phenomenon in the world is by nature complex. The people you deal with are equally complex. Any action sets off a limitless chain of reactions. It is never so simple as A leads to B. B will lead to C, D and beyond.

There are very few people who really appreciate my shows. People come to the show and they pay and they enjoy it, but I don’t really think most people really understand what they’ve seen.

I purposely don’t talk about money, because people are already skeptical about TV preachers. But I do say that I want you to be blessed. To me, prosperity is having health, having great children, having peace, good relationships. It’s not about the money.

Saying nothing… sometimes says the most.

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

My mom was on the United Way group that decides how to allocate the money and looks at all the different charities and makes the very hard decisions about where that pool of funds is going to go.

The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Marriage is scary to me, man.

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

The Jesuits have a vow to obey the pope, but if the pope is a Jesuit, maybe he should have a vow to obey the superior general… I feel like I’m still a Jesuit in terms of my spirituality, what I have in my heart.

‚Young Indiana Jones’ was one of the happiest times I ever had, so I love television.

When I was 18, I went to the Soviet Union. I kept hearing that America was planning to bomb them – lots of bombs were going to come down on these people. I went there not knowing anything, except that I thought the whole thing was stupid and that I wanted to see who these people were that we were going to bomb.

Anyone who is practicing understanding and compassion can exemplify true power. Anyone can be a Buddha.

As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you.

Part of me feels you can’t say you were truly in love if it didn’t last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that’s when I’ll know it’s real – because it lasted.

Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related.

Prayer is simply talking to God like a friend and should be the easiest thing we do each day.

In the Church, and in the journey of faith, women have had and still have a special role in opening doors to the Lord.

God is everywhere.

They might not need me; but they might. I’ll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.

The giving of love is an education in itself.