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.

Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?

One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child’s name and how old he or she is.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you’re the funniest person you’ve ever heard of.

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

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

Your body has space within you that cannot die.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.

I love performing, you know, because, like I say, I’m a ham for this stuff.

Pick the day. Enjoy it – to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come… The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present – and I don’t want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

I’ve done a lot of things I’m not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that.

Women – always in trouble with them, but can’t live without them.

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Relish everything that’s inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.

Boys do cry, but I don’t think I shed a tear for a good chunk of my teenage years.

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.

Thoughts are fine when you don’t confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

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

Secretly we’re all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.

I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

Love can do much, but duty more.

I want to be just a pure spiritual leader.

I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the ‚leaders‘ must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There’s always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

God is on my side, and that’s all I need. I get up in the morning, I pray to God. I don’t pray to the president, the governor, the mayor, no black caucus, no this and that. I pray to God, and that’s the end of it.

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.

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

As a father and now a grandfather to three wonderful grandchildren, I know how magical the first year of a child’s life is but also how much hard work it takes. Being able to spend as much time as possible with your loved ones is absolutely vital, especially early on.

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls… that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

Know that any and all thoughts that you have regarding your own skills, interests, and inclinations are valid. To reinforce the validity of your thoughts, keep them private. Tell yourself that they’re between you and God.

I’ve had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it’s not what I look for when I’m seeing someone.

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

Our faith is released as we say, pray and do the Word.

Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.

When I was growing up, there was nobody in my family – not even my mother – who I could look to and be like, ‚I know you’ve never said anything homophobic.‘ So, you know, you worry about people in the business who you’ve heard talk that way. Some of my heroes coming up talk recklessly like that.

I’m crazy and I don’t pretend to be anything else.

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o‘ the flatterer.

It doesn’t matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

You don’t have to give way to careless speech or complaining. You don’t have to let your feelings get in the way of what God wants to do in your life.

Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.

When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own.

I cry so much less than I used to. I used to be one of the most teary people.

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

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.