The big message of gospel is that you don’t have to keep fighting the universe; you can stop, and the universe is quite good to you. There is a loss of ego.

Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don’t forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.

Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what’s underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don’t think it ever will be.

Getting out of bed is like the foundation of the discipline, and I think it carries over into everything else.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation.

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

Just as the humble, unassuming, assenting ‚O.K.‘ has deposed the more affirmative ‚Yes,‘ so the little cringe and hesitation and approximation of ‚like‘ are a help to young people who are struggling to negotiate the shoals and rapids of ethnic identity, the street, and general correctness.

I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there’s a confidence I have. I learned that from Muhammad Ali; I used to bodyguard him. He taught me about confidence. So when it comes to any job I work, I’m gonna do it good; I’m going to bring it over the top.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

I always was a Christian… whatsoever a man thinks in his heart is who he is.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

It was Einstein’s dream to discover the grand design of the universe, a single theory that explains everything. However, physicists in Einstein’s day hadn’t made enough progress in understanding the forces of nature for that to be a realistic goal.

God didn’t make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God… If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.

Without discipline, there’s no life at all.

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

If you sit there and have that mentality of ‚triple down on what you’re good at,‘ you’re never going to grow. You’re always going to stay the same.

In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.

Deficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

I’m afraid to fail again.

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

I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will – his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

Everything is subject to change except God Himself.

Don’t be misled by those who claim God doesn’t exist, because He does.

Being brought up very religious, I have a fear of people that look to idol gods.

Our whole life is set up in the path of least resistance. We don’t want to suffer. We don’t want to feel discomfort. So the whole time, we’re living our lives in a very comfortable area. There’s no growth in that.

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

I’m not well-read, but when I read, I read well.

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

When you face a ‚performance‘ that might provoke the ‚I’m scared‘ response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It’s more fun than ‚Dancing with the Stars!‘

Every three months, I’ll say, ‚Honey, I think I should learn how to cook‘.

It’s really hard to guarantee things in life. I guarantee if you get up in the morning and you work out, and you work hard, you will have a better day – 100% guaranteed.

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

A true man hates no one.

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

It’s more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I’m naive, where I’m a novice.

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn’t enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

Don’t ever forget two things I’m going to tell you. One, don’t believe everything that’s written about you. Two, don’t pick up too many checks.

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, ‚O God, forgive me,‘ or ‚Help me.‘

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

Yeah, I like to keep myself interested – I’ll kind of throw myself into some area that I don’t completely know or understand, that I’m not adept at, so I’m forced to swim in order to stay afloat. There’s a good feeling that comes from that.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

Power is competence.

Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.