The first step in a person’s salvation is knowledge of their sin.

I was born with a great gift, and sometimes with that comes a destructive streak.

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

Remember that life’s big changes rarely give advance warning.

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

I don’t like to read things that people write about me. I’d rather read what kids have to say about me because it’s not their profession to do that.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin‘ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did – which was to hide.

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.

You can always tell when a man’s well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.

I was never particularly fond of my voice.

Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.

A game is like a mirror that allows you to look at yourself.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It’s hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

I can imagine it’s hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn’t know.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?

My home is in Heaven. I’m just traveling through this world.

A child wants things to be a certain way. When you get to be an adult, you just understand that some people are good, some are not, and you can’t be naive.

I just want to lobby for God.

One of my major keys is actually the master keys: God.

I fear that there are too many priesthood bearers who have done little or nothing to develop their ability to access the powers of Heaven.

If you’re embarrassed because you have some notion about how men are supposed to behave, and it doesn’t include weeping, then you have some personal work to do.

God may be subtle, but he isn’t plain mean.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man’s resources?

I sometimes have a tendency to walk on the dark side.

I’m confident in who I am. I’ve come to a place in my life where I’ve accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That’s just the way I’ve always tried to be. It didn’t change when I became a star.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.

I’m a whopping 5 foot 4 inches tall. I’m not going to get any taller.

For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience.

We are eternal beings – spirit children of heavenly parents.

Clinicians, academicians, and politicians are often put to a test of faith. In pursuit of their goals, will their religion show or will it be hidden? Are they tied back to God or to man?

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.

Love of God is not always the same as love of good.

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

Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.

My whole life has been one big improvisation.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.

I always try to do as much as I can do. I’m never a person that does not enough, because I’d regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn’t work.

I’m going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.

A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.

I never do anything that I don’t want to do.

No one even knows one percent of the fabulous history of Man; but thanks to history, we know about occurrences that go beyond the limits of the imaginable.

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you’re aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.

I think it’s my responsibility, as a person of influence… to sometimes try to do what I can.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.