The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

What matters in the Sun-tzu universe are not positions of strength and power, but situations in which you have options, full of potential force.

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

Hoover was a patriot in his heart, but he definitely exceeded his power.

Power is the great aphrodisiac.

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

The power of our thoughts may never be measured or appreciated, but it became obvious to me as a young boy that there was value and power in being aware of my thoughts and how I expressed myself.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

I owe my solitude to other people.

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Sometimes I catch myself stooping, and whenever I am like that, I am sure something is not quite right.

I just want to lobby for God.

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

There’s no formula.

When I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you, and it is cool or cold, and you come to your work and warm as you write.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

The only thing that matters is submitting to the will of God.

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

But I’ll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything.

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

Despite the slowness, the infidelity, the errors and sins it committed and might still commit against its members, the Church, trust me, has no other meaning and goal but to live and witness Jesus.

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don’t think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

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.‘

I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

Don’t be a writer; it’s a terrible way to live your life. There’s nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don’t expect anything from anybody.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

I always wonder when it was that I was embraced.

When you become a Christian, something truly amazing happens: God comes to live inside your heart. You become the home of God.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

I talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer.

My belief as a Christian is when we receive Christ as salvation, that that gives us a guarantee for Heaven.

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.

There are some Christian people who taste and see and enjoy religion in their own souls, and who get at a deeper knowledge of it than books can ever give them, though they should search all their days.

I don’t know which will go first – rock ‚n‘ roll or Christianity.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Through the ages, many of His children have had access to the blessings of the gospel, but many more have not.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

The reason I talk to myself is that I’m the only one whose answers I accept.

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

To say that Christ is the term and motive force of evolution, to say that he manifests himself as ‚evolver,‘ is implicitly to recognize that he becomes attainable in and through the whole process of evolution.

You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.

You don’t need a lot of credentials to be prison guard in a federal prison. And, you know, you give them a set of keys and a weapon, and they’re in power.

I’m inconsistent, even to myself.

When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.

Swimming has its educational value – mental, moral, and physical – in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb.

I think and that is all that I am.

I am a Catholic, not so committed to the church, but to the idea of the Virgin, the female face of God.

The relationship to one’s fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one’s striving.

Cowardice… is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it’s not religion, but you can train through education.

I never wanted to look pretty on stage and sing about something we’ve all heard about before.

They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won’t get played Huh?