Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.

Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.

I’m grateful for always this moment, the now, no matter what form it takes.

Once you start doing only what you’ve already proven you can do, you’re on the road to death.

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.

You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.

I am sure there’s going to be times when I do things wrong that no one’s going to like and everyone’s going to think I’m terrible and rubbish but I know I’m going to go through those times, and it’s just about understanding that that’s going to happen.

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.

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.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

I’m not a person who defends myself very often. I kind of let my actions speak for me.

The spirit of America has nurtured responsibility and community unlike any other country.

The things that transfixed you as a child, that you found most exciting was not a passing fancy, but a message about what you’re supposed to do.

I’m the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that’s horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it.

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don’t know nothing. I mean, that’s my life lesson.

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem – and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

Find joy and solace in the simple, and cultivate your utopia by feeling the Tao in every cubic inch of space.

The reason I became 297 pounds is because that was comfortable. What was very uncomfortable was running. What was very uncomfortable was being on a diet. What was very uncomfortable was trying to face things that I didn’t want to face. And I also realized, when I was really big, I had no growth. Why? Because I was living comfortable.

I’ve been called a moron since I was about four. My father called me a moron. My grandfather said I was a moron. And a lot of times when I’m driving, I hear I’m a moron. I like being a moron.

I’m like a recovering perfectionist. For me it’s one day at a time.

Every time you think the problem is ‚out there,‘ that very thought is the problem.

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

Within one’s own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too much fun.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

Thinking is a wonderful tool if it’s applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you’re dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.

One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

I grew up as this very carefree, happy kid then things turned darker for me. Maybe it was because I saw that the world wasn’t as happy a place as I had hoped it would be for me.

He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.

When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you’re waiting for the elevator – instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence.

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

Sometimes I’m a bit under-aggressive and sometimes a bit over. But I think it’s good to have both.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did – which was to hide.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

If we’re really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what’s causing us to do what we do.

You can’t go backward in life.

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

I have to keep improving myself and challenging myself.

I don’t know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I’m a great gift to the world. I’ve been very fortunate.

Even the securest financial plan and the finest health coverage aren’t enough to hold us steady when the challenges come… We need something more, something deeper and unshakeable, something that will see us through life’s hard times.

What is true belongs to me!

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

Some Christians feel guilty when they are doing something that isn’t ‚spiritual.‘ Somehow or another, they feel the need to hurry through the grocery store, dash through the house cleaning, and rush through all the daily aspects of life that seem irrelevant to their faith.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything.

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.