We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.

There is no harm in repeating a good thing.

There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can ‚be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough‘ are not true. They are fairy tales.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

Those outside the church expect followers of Christ to live differently, yet today many in church are chasing after the world – not to win them, but to be like them.

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Reality has a way of intruding. Reality eventually intrudes on everything.

I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.

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.

Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.

I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope.

My sorrow, when she’s here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.

The big message of gospel is that you don’t have to keep fighting the universe; you can stop, and the universe is quite good to you. There is a loss of ego.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

I love my friends and my past, and it’s made me who I am.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn’t much. But the things that I’m really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I’m not successful, what do I have?

I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.

Life is so, so short. Bible says it’s like a vapor.

I feel matured in a way that I’m happy about. I’m at this other stage in my life – and it’s not a bad thing at all.

I don’t want to be something that just comes and goes.

Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

My mother told me, ‚Son, nobody else but God knows.‘ And that’s what I’m about – reaching out to the people, crying with them, giving them hope. Visiting the hospital, visiting the kids with cancer, visiting the adults, and stuff like that. That’s what I do.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one’s breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God’s grace.

Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take ten forward.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone… Bad food is fake food… food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people’s ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.

The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.

Modern science says: ‚The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.‘ From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

Transforming yourself into a deep listener will not only prove more amusing as you open your mind to their mind, but you will gain the most invaluable lessons about human psychology.

I think it’s healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care – that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.