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 you believe in prayer at all, expect God to hear you. If you do not expect, you will not have. God will not hear you unless you believe He will hear you; but if you believe He will, He will be as good as your faith.

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

I am radically, insanely, nutty in love with Jesus!

We do not pray to God to instruct Him as to what He should do; neither for a moment must we presume to dictate the method of the divine working.

So there’s nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who’s cool hates – and then making it cool.

In spiritual things, it is God who performs all things for you. Rest in Him, then.

I have met 18 million youth, and each wants to be unique.

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

If in prayer I come before a throne of grace, the faults of my prayer will be overlooked.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I’m referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man.

Part of me suspects that I’m a loser, and the other part of me thinks I’m God Almighty.

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.

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

I feel a distaste for hunting, first because of a kind of Buddhist respect for the unity and sacredness of all life, and also because the pursuit of a hare or chamois strikes me as a kind of ‚escape of energy,‘ that is, the expenditure of our effort in an illusory end, one devoid of profit.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

It’s very unnatural to be someone for so many people. But of course it’s very nice.

I used to get into a lot of fights.

We must begin seeing other creatures as equal. Existence makes us all equal.

When I was making the early stuff, I never expected it to be so big. I was in my own kind of bubble. I never wanted to tour; I just wanted to create music and make a diary I could put out into the world. And sometimes, I became the characters.

One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

I don’t keep people around me that aren’t family. You don’t get to stay. Unless you’re eating at the table with us, you’re not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.

If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I’m not frightened by anyone’s perception of me.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

Of those beings who live in ignorance, shut up and confined, as it were, in an egg, I have first broken the eggshell of ignorance and alone in the universe obtained the most exalted, universal Buddhahood.

Observe all men, thyself most.

A person’s a person, no matter how small.

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

I really do feel part of America to my very bones; at the same time, I know that I come from somewhere else.

It is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city.

It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you’re living your life. I wouldn’t compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it’s about a man who doesn’t appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me.

The day you stop doing the small things is the day you think you’re above everybody else.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

The truth is, I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let men sometimes fool themselves.

North Americans don’t understand… that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.

Sometimes when you’ve had a long series of disappointing things happen, you can get into the very bad habit of just expecting more of what you’ve already had.

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.

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.

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.

You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.

Humanity, you never had it to begin with.

Man has throughout the ages been seeking something beyond himself, beyond material welfare – something we call truth or God or reality, a timeless state – something that cannot be disturbed by circumstances, by thought or by human corruption.

I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.

When people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except the ego. They can no longer feel or sense their humanity – what they share with other human beings, or even with other life forms on the planet. They are so identified with concepts in their minds that other human beings become concepts as well.

We think when God speaks to us, there’s going to be a boom out of Heaven or we’re going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God’s talking to us all the time. He’s talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it’s the Holy Spirit talking to us.

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else – I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

There is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship; nothing that can satisfy but Christ.

You better take care of me Lord, if you don’t you’re gonna have me on your hands.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.