The day you stop doing the small things is the day you think you’re above everybody else.

Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.

It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.

God made you a masterpiece – be blessed, secure, disciplined and equipped.

People want to feel hopeful.

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won’t presume to probe into the faults of others.

I’m of the school of thought where if you can’t sort something out for yourself then no one can help you.

When you’re in hell, you forget how great you really are because you’re suffering and you forget the great things you’ve done.

Whatever role I play is a positive role; it’s a strong role. Never negative.

I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from there.

You can’t be happy by doing something groovy.

I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you’re supposed to use whatever happen to you as some type of upper, not a downer.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

I knew ‚Crenshaw‘ had elevated me and distinguished me.

Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.

I have wasted my hours.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn’t always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.

I have never regarded myself as a hero, but Tenzing undoubtedly was.

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don’t know and I don’t care.

Don’t be afraid to see what you see.

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living?

I got my own back.

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

My fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids‘ reaction to that divorce.

When I was younger, I was testing myself and questioning everything, but now it’s less about that and more about these are the years of my life with my family.

There’s a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It’s deceptive because when you have pride, you’re usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn’t sell well.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

When you make a mistake and the devil comes and tells you ‚You’re no good,‘ you don’t have to take on the guilt and condemnation he wants to put on you. No! You can immediately confess your mistake to God, thank Him for forgiving you and cleansing you with the blood of Jesus, and move forward in the victory of His grace and forgiveness.

There’s something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.

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.

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

I had never been in charge of anything. I’d always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry. I always had a boss yelling at me. So I’d never been in charge of an organization.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I’m going to be alive, I want to be challenged – to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn’t an easy way, but it’s a rewarding way.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Thoughts are mental energy; they’re the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don’t want.

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I’m a realist.

The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

As I get older, I tend to put more into family than I used to.

I’m not intelligent. I’m not arrogant. I’m just like the people who read my books. I used to have a jazz club, and I made the cocktails and I made the sandwiches. I didn’t want to become a writer – it just happened.

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

I wouldn’t say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I’d like my fear emotion to be less because it’s very distracting and fries my nervous system.

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

Honor thy error as a hidden intention.

Your Highest Self only wants you to be at peace. It does not judge, compare, or demand that you defeat anyone or be better than anyone.