People should not make me out to be like Jesus; I don’t walk on water.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

I’m no genius.

I’ve noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it’s far enough in the future.

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

I don’t need to be vindicated, and I don’t want attention.

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

I’m honest enough to say I don’t know everything. You know, I don’t. I don’t understand all of God. I don’t understand, you know, some kind of why bad things happen.

In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a ‚continent,‘ a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

The narrow bandwidth of TV has made us think that we are stupider than we are.

I consider the fact that thousands of children die each day from starvation and a lack of medicine a crisis for humanity and a problem we must collectively attempt to solve.

Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

I think we’ve taken the meaning of Christmas out. People don’t stop and think about Jesus or the birth of Jesus. When they think of Christmas, they think of Santa Claus and – for the children, and they think of giving gifts and out-giving the next person of spending their time looking for the right thing for somebody who has everything.

I find with most of my readers are kind of like me, sort of people who were a little bit naive in life and then learned the hard way that this is what’s going on, the political games and most of my readers write to me telling me that the book helped them open their eyes to what other people are doing to them.

People who say they don’t care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don’t care what people think.

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

I was always taught not to answer no questions. I’m not really good at answering them because I get agitated so fast.

One of the most important decisions you’ll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

We can’t all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

I’m my own worst critic, and if I don’t pull off what I think I wanted to do in my head, then I won’t be a happy girl.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library.

I hear my friends and my mom tell me I’m special, but honestly, I still don’t get it.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

It is hard sometimes to always be at the centre of attention, but when you talk about me you also have to talk about the climate.

With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It’s made up of pioneers, the beginners. That’s where the action is.

For people who may think they know, or have snippets of who I am, you can attack that person. That’s part of being a public figure.

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‚If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?‘ But… the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‚If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?‘

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.

Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice… No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.

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.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

Many people look at me and think they know me but they don’t at all. This is the real me. I am a humble person, a feeling person. A person who cares about others, who wants to help others.

Every human has four endowments – self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.

I’m not a god – I do bad things.

My problem is I am Christian, so I think other people must have success, too; it’s not about me.

To every soul that knows how to pray, to every soul that by faith comes to Jesus, the true mercy seat, divine sovereignty wears no dark and terrible aspect but is full of love.

A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.

I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person’s life. God is in everyone’s life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else – God is in this person’s life. You can – you must – try to seek God in every human life.

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

Do you know something? The minute that blood sacrifice was accepted, Jesus was the first human being that was ever born again. Now that was real – it happened when he was in Hell.