There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.

I don’t want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know – and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Satan is the master distracter. He is always working to keep us off track in our walk with God.

Don’t let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don’t whine. You can be brought low, that’s OK, but don’t be reduced by them. Just say, ‚That’s life.‘

The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord’s mercy motivates us to do better.

I’m chasing perfection.

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

When people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except the ego. They can no longer feel or sense their humanity – what they share with other human beings, or even with other life forms on the planet. They are so identified with concepts in their minds that other human beings become concepts as well.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

I try to teach my heart not to want things it can’t have.

If you look at my life, generally, I’ve been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.

This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. I have what it says I have. I can do what it says I can do.

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look – for dizzier heights.

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.

You’ve got to invest in the world, you’ve got to read, you’ve got to go to art galleries, you’ve got to find out the names of plants. You’ve got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We’re amazing people.

Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

God’s mercy and grace give me hope – for myself, and for our world.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

I am not a particularly thick-skinned person.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

If you’re in a workplace you don’t like right now, be encouraged because God will use it for your good. Think about it this way: He wants you to be a light in the darkness – and He’s putting His confidence in you!

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

I’ve taught a lot about prayer over the years and how it is really just talking to God.

Libraries raised me.

I don’t let my religious world get too complicated.

You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.

Conversion is a change of masters. Will we not do as much for our new master, the Lord Jesus, as we did once for our old tyrant lusts?

Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle’s light.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Instead of blaming everyone and everything else for your problems, pray for God to help you take an inventory of what’s been on your mind so you can think about what you’ve been thinking about.

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.

If I wouldn’t have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.

I wasn’t that great a chef, and I don’t think I’m that great a writer.

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

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.

I have to keep improving myself and challenging myself.

I am a Catholic.

I’ve never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me.

Choosing an attitude of faith will release peace out of your spirit and into your soul.

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

I want to be just a pure spiritual leader.

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.

I am not promising that God will give you everything you want. There are times when we want things that God knows would not be good for us.