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.

Learn to think continentally.

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‚All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,‘ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.

When your higher self is present, it always promotes peace.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

My wife has about everything I can think of.

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.

Fear is exciting for me.

It’s amazing: I am a New Yorker. It’s strange; I never thought I would be.

I put my flaws on front street. So the world accepted my flaws, so I don’t have any flaws.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Now I realize that from ’72 through to about ’76, I was the ultimate rock star. I couldn’t have been more rock star.

I always want to listen to people and receive good criticism, but I just don’t have to answer to them; I have to answer to God.

As a Christian, you forgive, and you feed the hungry and clothe the naked, and you visit the sick and comfort the lonely. If I’m a true follower of my lord and saviour Jesus Christ, I got to do the things you’re supposed to be doing.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

I didn’t know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me.

The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

I believe that the greatest form of prayer is praise to God.

Because my dad abused me, I was determined to never let a man tell me what to do. God clearly showed me that I needed to be a submissive wife if I wanted to be effective in ministry. The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

I grew up in a funny way.

I liked school, but I used to dread those moments when the teacher would call me up to give an oral report. I forced myself to deal with it and not dwell on the class in front of me – to keep a straight face, give the report and concentrate on getting it right. That’s normally how I perform. That’s how I am.

People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.

I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life’s not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

I’m in awe of the universe, but I don’t necessarily believe there’s an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.

I’m a big believer in doing things that make you uncomfortable. So, we live in a world where we want to be as comfortable as we can. And we wonder why we have no growth. We wonder why – when the smallest thing in our life gets difficult – we wonder why we cower and we run away.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

I want you to be everything that’s you, deep at the center of your being.

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don’t baptize the children of single mothers because they weren’t conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today’s hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

Although I don’t have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

Theology is unnecessary.

I hate what I look like on TV, and I want to look better, and nothing makes the mothers more jealous.

She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me.

I believe in God – not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator. This is my Being.

My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their own characters and were very strong-minded. I gave them a lot of freedom when they were still very young. The one thing they got from me is morals. They would never betray anyone. They are really good people.

I am a nuclear physicist by training and a deeply committed Christian. I don’t have any doubt in my own mind about God who created the entire universe. But I don’t adhere to passages that so and so was created 4,000 years before Christ, and things of that kind.

If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.

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

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

Never leave a rhinestone unturned.

No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one’s sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one’s character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

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.

I know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do.

Sometimes you must suffer through something to defeat your fear of it.

You either make dust or eat dust.

Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.