Right now, we don’t have a very good relation with creation.

One must steer, not talk.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

It is easier to be critical than correct.

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, ‚darkness‘ on the walls of his cell.

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

I miss people. I miss going anywhere and meeting a random person and saying ‚Hi‘ and having a conversation about life. I love people.

I thank God I’m myself and for the life I’m given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.

The best is the enemy of the good.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

When people are lame, they love to blame.

Don’t matter how much money you got, there’s only two kinds of people: there’s saved people and there’s lost people.

The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

You make yourself broad. You make yourself appealing. ‚Hey, y’all, I’m cool with everybody.‘ That’s my message.

Motives reveal why we do what we do, which is actually more important to God than what we’re doing.

Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

‚Worry‘ is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‚Thy will be done,‘ and those to whom God says, ‚All right, then, have it your way.‘

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

Whenever you’re going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.

If you try to protect yourself from pain, it becomes a stone in your heart. But the more you learn to face things, the more likely that stone can become a pearl.

Prayer doesn’t just change things – it changes us. If we are diligent in seeking God, slowly and surely we become better people.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

When people say, you know, ‚Good teacher,‘ ‚Prophet,‘ ‚Really nice guy’… this is not how Jesus thought of Himself. So you’re left with a challenge in that, which is either Jesus was who he said he was or a complete and utter nut case. You have to make a choice on that.

I intend to inspire people with my story: motivate young people that grew up like myself, or even not like myself. Just, you know, go through the human experience.

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

I am just one human being.

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.

The reason I became 297 pounds is because that was comfortable. What was very uncomfortable was running. What was very uncomfortable was being on a diet. What was very uncomfortable was trying to face things that I didn’t want to face. And I also realized, when I was really big, I had no growth. Why? Because I was living comfortable.

God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me – spiritually and financially.

Whoever doesn’t know it must learn and find by experience that ‚a quiet conscience makes one strong!‘

Don’t say I hate institutionalised religion – rather than saying I hate those things, which I do not, what I’m saying is that perhaps there is a way of opening more doors, rather than closing so many.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

When it comes to our everyday habits, it’s important to ask: ‚Am I putting God first?‘

I’m chasing perfection.

Love… it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force – that thoughts rule the world.

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

The intention and outcome of vulnerability is trust, intimacy and connection. The outcome of oversharing is distrust, disconnection – and usually a little judgment.

Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don’t do any good, but they don’t necessarily do any harm. It’s touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I’ve got my just desserts.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

Pray, and let God worry.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.