The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

We as women, we have to understand that we know more, just even instinctively, than we think we do.

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

I think Bible principles are principles for life.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a ‚race‘ life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.

Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.

Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.

Either you’re the one erasing or you’re the one being erased.

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody’s life.

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

Part of me suspects that I’m a loser, and the other part of me thinks I’m God Almighty.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

God’s Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.

In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I’ll be OK. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can’t find.

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

Christmas is the perfect time to celebrate the love of God and family and to create memories that will last forever. Jesus is God’s perfect, indescribable gift. The amazing thing is that not only are we able to receive this gift, but we are able to share it with others on Christmas and every other day of the year.

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

Honoring the priesthood fosters respect, respect promotes reverence, and reverence invites revelation.

Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider… the riders contend for its possession.

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

Me, as a person, I grow. I’m like a chameleon. You know? That is a gift and a curse for me. But more so a gift, because it never puts me in a box.

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.

Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice… No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.

I’m concerned that my technical skills have advanced to the point where I can get closer to what I’m aiming for, which is not such a good thing.

The left paw has done me well over the years. I’m not a scientist, I’m a martial artist.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

I don’t know that you can put a label on growth. I’m just me.

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.

I’ve just tried to grow up in the most natural and gradual process that I possibly can and make choices I feel are right for me and my fans.

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.

I find with most of my readers are kind of like me, sort of people who were a little bit naive in life and then learned the hard way that this is what’s going on, the political games and most of my readers write to me telling me that the book helped them open their eyes to what other people are doing to them.

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.

I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

I imagine I will be less involved in film and be focused more on family and foreign affairs.

I was raised in a family where vulnerability was barely tolerated: no training wheels on our bicycles, no goggles in the pool, just get it done. And so I grew up not only with discomfort about my own vulnerability, I didn’t care for it in other people either.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

I still have mixed feelings about what growing up is – this thing that happens to everyone, so I’ve heard.

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

I think it’s a very good thing to leave your country and look at it from afar.

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I’m sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

No matter what your mission is, have some notion in your head. Forget the model, whether it’s government or nonprofit or profit. Ask yourself the more important question: Is my mission improving the world? Are you sure about it? Seek to disconfirm that all the time. And if you can, change your mission.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.