What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

You don’t have to give way to careless speech or complaining. You don’t have to let your feelings get in the way of what God wants to do in your life.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our education system.

The more I grow in popularity, the lonelier it gets. Because you don’t really know me. You just know this part of me. You fell in love with that. But it’s way more intricate than what meets the surface.

I haven’t been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

To those whose talents are above mediocrity, the highest subjects may be announced. To those who are below mediocrity, the highest subjects may not be announced.

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

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

Honestly, I always believed in myself. For real, for real.

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

It is a hard thing to let go of mistakes we’ve made and sins. God wants us to do that because He knows the guilt and the condemnation will keep us from becoming who He has created us to be.

The people of Northern Ireland have sorted out my whole life.

I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.

Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

I’m always just surprised when someone writes something about me.

Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

One thing about me is I try to be honest.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.

To add value to others, one must first value others.

I don’t like it when people who are young act like they’re 40. That’s taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you’re so mature or whatever – I don’t try to act mature. Some people might say I’m mature for my age, but it’s not something I’m trying to do, you know? I’m just me.

My freshman and sophomore years in high school, I spent a lot of time trying to get back on the right track. I was arrested multiple times by the time I was 16, so I had a little harder time trying to adjust like a lot of us do in high school.

Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

When you stop caring what people think, you lose your capacity for connection. When you’re defined by it, you lose our capacity for vulnerability.

First, I’m trying to prove to myself that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll convince myself that I’m an actress.

People may think I’m trying something new by telling stories, but they’re just jokes connected to give the illusion of stories. But really, I just continue using my imagination and creating. That’s what I do.

Because my dad abused me, I was determined to never let a man tell me what to do. God clearly showed me that I needed to be a submissive wife if I wanted to be effective in ministry. The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.

I have wasted my hours.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

The hippie movement politicized my generation. When it ended, we all started looking back at our own history, looking, in my case, for motives of rebellion.

My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

Thoughts are fine when you don’t confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

I don’t regret anything.

The Bible tells us to be perfect. This is likely a scary thought for many people. It used to scare me. I didn’t think I could ever get there, no matter how hard I tried.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

Overall there’s going to be things I’m not great at.

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.

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

You have freedom when you’re easy in your harness.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.