Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don’t honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

Self-talk, for me, has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It’s a crappy dialogue. We live in a world right now that is very external. Everything is very on the surface. Superficial. Everything. And what we’re telling ourselves is what we see on TV.

Life’s too short to deal with other people’s insecurities.

How much better it would be if all could be more aware of God’s providence and love and express that gratitude to Him.

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

The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

I would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky things, but now I’ve got kids and responsibilities, so I can’t be my own test pilot. That wouldn’t be a good idea. But I definitely want to fly as soon as it’s a sensible thing to do.

I can’t keep somebody from being a star, and I can’t make somebody a star, and nobody can.

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

You can retire from a job, but don’t ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

Country radio is much more like a family than any other group of people that I’ve met.

A shady business never yields a sunny life.

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

Right now I’m just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.

I don’t look at my old work. I mean, they made nice books; the books were made without me, the one from last year and the one from this year. I – personally, I’m not interested in my own past. I’m only interested in today – perhaps tomorrow.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.

The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.

I owe my solitude to other people.

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

I don’t see the point of doing an interview unless you’re going to share the things you learn in life and the mistakes you make. So to admit that I’m extremely human and have done some dark things I don’t think makes me unusual or unusually dark. I think it actually is the right thing to do, and I’d like to think it’s the nice thing to do.

There is no real limit to how much better a person who really commits to getting better can get. Every manager has the potential to become an excellent manager for the rest of his or her career.

The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance.

The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.

Spending time with God through prayer and His Word is a prerequisite for having a great life and fulfilling your purpose.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people.

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

I remember, when I was a young guy in the SEAL teams, I was very afraid of making mistakes and looking stupid or doing dumb things and getting a bad reputation.

To make headway, improve your head.

In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

I have an expression I use as I’ve gone around the world through my career: ‚You never tell another man or woman what’s in their interest. They know their interest better than you know their interest.‘

God’s first creature, which was light.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

You can be committed to Church but not committed to Christ, but you cannot be committed to Christ and not committed to church.

I’m never going to be fast, and nobody will ever mistake me for being fast.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

In a universe that’s an intelligent system with a divine creative force supporting it, there simply can be no accidents. As tough as it is to acknowledge, you had to go through what you went through in order to get to where you are today, and the evidence is that you did.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.

I’m perpetually lonely.

I have had some cosmetic surgery, especially after I lost weight and stuff, and I’ve had my breasts lifted – but not injected. That would scare me to death, anyway.

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up – they have no holidays.

He who knows himself is enlightened.

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there’s gonna come a time that you’re gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.

Truth is a pathless land.

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

I consider wisdom supernatural because it isn’t taught by men – it’s a gift from God.

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.