Our personal intelligence is everlasting and divine.

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

Real life is the life that’s in you, not your circumstances, like where you live or what job you have or who you’re in relationship with.

Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.

Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

The question is not, ‚Do you have a problem?‘ The question is, ‚Does the problem have you?‘

Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

As the father of eight children, I’m quite convinced that each individual arrives here with their own unique personality. We are intended here from an invisible held of infinite potentiality. That which has no form, has no boundaries – it’s the I that’s in the ever-changing body.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

People define Christianity differently. I think a large portion of our population are Christians, they’re not all growing in their faith, they’re not all active, but I believe that a lot of people believe in Jesus and believe that he is their Lord and Savior.

I wish I knew why I am so anguished.

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

I consider wisdom supernatural because it isn’t taught by men – it’s a gift from God.

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

In our home there was always prayer – aloud, proud and unapologetic.

I’m very, very serious – I’m serious enough not to take myself too seriously. That means I can be completely wedded to the moment. But when I leave that moment, I want to be completely wedded to the next moment.

A daily portion is really all we need. We do not need tomorrow’s supply, for that day has not yet dawned, and its needs are still unborn.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

No one knows Anne’s better side, and that’s why most people can’t stand me. Oh, I can be an amusing clown for an afternoon, but after that, everyone’s had enough of me to last a month.

If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.

The people who truly know me know what I’m like. There have been people who try to say things that aren’t fair, and I check them. And then they don’t like me because I checked them.

The Canteen Boy, the reason you feel bad for him and you can laugh is because he, and I guess a lot of my characters, they don’t notice they’re getting made fun of. So they’ll say something back that’s not that great a quip, but in their mind they won the argument.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

What a liberation to realize that the ‚voice in my head‘ is not who I am. ‚Who am I, then?‘ The one who sees that.

I’ve never been reckless – it’s always calculated. I’m mischievous, but I’m calculated.

I think faith is incredibly important because you will become overwhelmed with what’s happening and you will have waves of grief, but when you turn to your faith, I believe God will give you waves of grace to get through it.

Man gives you the award but God gives you the reward.

Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things – he didn’t just command them to believe.

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.

I’m nobody, who are you?

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature’s God.

I’ve seen firsthand that being president doesn’t change who you are. It reveals who you are.

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was going to die one day, and myself too. I had a sort of a philosophical crisis. I couldn’t believe that we were mortal.

It’s impossible to live a life totally free of feelings. God created all of us to be emotional creatures, and feelings are a big part of our lives.

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.

I just think that trusting God means we’re going to have unanswered questions, and God is so much bigger than us, we’re never going to understand them all.

I wonder how many decisions we make every day. I believe it’s probably hundreds. We decide whether or not to get out of bed, what we’ll eat, what we’ll do, what we’ll think about, what we’ll say… and on and on.

The devil is a peace stealer, and he works hard to set us up to get upset. But we can learn how to change our approach so we don’t live upset all of the time. And Jesus gives us the best example to follow.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

Life isn’t fair, but God is.

It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.

For me, time is the greatest mystery of all. The fact is that we’re dreaming all the time. That’s what really gets me. We have a fathomless lake of unconsciousness just beneath our skulls.

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

The self is hateful.

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy – but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that’s how I am guided.

You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

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