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.

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it’s that I’ve never been a kept woman.

One of the things I definitely think of as a driver of me is fear. And it’s fear of failure, fear of being overtaken.

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

I’m addicted to placebos.

We can realise a lasting peace and transform the East-West relationship to one of enduring co-operation.

It’s very hard to live with yourself if you don’t stick with your moral code.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

Doing the box set is one of those things where you get to rewrite your own history to some extent. We could take out some of the songs that we felt weren’t as strong as some of the others, so you look better.

The first step in a person’s salvation is knowledge of their sin.

Life is about growing and improving and getting better.

Indecision may or may not be my problem.

It’s still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.

Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.

Glam really did plant seeds for a new identity. I think a lot of kids needed that – that sense of reinvention. Kids learned that however crazy you may think it is, there is a place for what you want to do and who you want to be.

I’m of the school of thought where if you can’t sort something out for yourself then no one can help you.

I have an existential map. It has ‚You are here‘ written all over it.

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

I have practically no private life. I’m already used to this and ready for it. Yes, sometimes it is hard, but it is the choice I made.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‚I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.‘

There can be no better grounding for a lifetime as an author than to see humanity in all its various guises through the lens of the reporter for the town.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

The American people are so much stronger, so much more resolved than any enemy can fully understand.

There’s two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.

When you realize who you live for, and who’s important to please, a lot of people will actually start living. I am never going to get caught up in that. I’m gonna look back on my life and say that I enjoyed it – and I lived it for me.

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

I’m no genius.

God is patient with us to become the God’s children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.

Before finding music, I didn’t have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

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

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.

Weak character will neutralize all of the other possible good qualities a person might possess.

Whether we’re happy with our circumstances or not, giving God praise is so important.

I don’t have all the answers.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

Remember that life’s big changes rarely give advance warning.

I’ve made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven’t lived in vain.

When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.

When I look back over my life it’s almost as if there was a plan laid out for me – from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn’t afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth.

At first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But I dared myself to do that, to stand out. Now I’ll talk about being beaten up or robbed or making a stupid decision because of a girl or whatever.

Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.

My body is quite tiny, but a lot of the emotions I feel are pretty explosive. They have to come out.

It’s very hard to find your own words – and you don’t actually exist until you have your own words.

Always say ‚yes‘ to the present moment… Surrender to what is. Say ‚yes‘ to life – and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.

When men do not have healthy notions of the Divinity, false ideas supplant them, just as in bad times one uses counterfeit money when there is no good money.

College isn’t in everyone’s hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn’t mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.

There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.

Never complain and never explain.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

I’m not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.

Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who’s only texting you back three words. I’ve learned that from trying to figure out people who don’t deserve to be figured out.

I hope not to define myself by suffering.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.

Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.