Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

I’m not a natural joiner.

Don’t just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump.

We cannot live being obsessed with what other people think about us. It’s impossible to live like that. Not even God managed to please the entire world.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

Catering to bad feelings feeds and empowers them.

I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can’t be locked up with anyone for too long.

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

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.

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it’s almost always due to personal growth.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

I’m a genetic optimist.

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

There’s love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we’re alone in our heads.

I’m crazy and I don’t pretend to be anything else.

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

One’s real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

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.

Don’t grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don’t know if I’ll ever be as good a dad as my dad.

That’s the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God – so do I buy that one? If all the other cliches are true… Hell, don’t pose me that one.

It’s only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I’m skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I’m big, when I was big, I never thought about it.

Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.

When you realize who you live for, and who’s important to please, a lot of people will actually start living. I am never going to get caught up in that. I’m gonna look back on my life and say that I enjoyed it – and I lived it for me.

I’ll never, ever be full. I’ll always be hungry. Obviously, I’m not talking about food. Growing up, I had nothing for such a long time. Someone told me a long time ago, and I’ve never forgotten it, ‚Once you’ve ever been hungry, really, really hungry, then you’ll never, ever be full.‘

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

I really have no interest in myself.

The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution – this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

I say, ‚Yeah, Taylor Swift.‘ I think she is a smart, beautiful girl. I think she’s making all the right moves. She’s got a good head on her shoulders. She’s surrounded with wonderful people. Her songs are great. She keeps herself anchored. She knows who she is, and she’s living and standing by that.

I don’t tell people, ‚You’re okay the way that you are.‘ That’s not the right story. The right story is, ‚You’re way less than you could be.‘

I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don’t hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.

Sometimes I try to just sit at home and do something calmer and simpler and just be in my life. You know, not trying to solve a lot of things at once.

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

Billy Graham is one of my great lifetime heroes. I think he epitomizes the essence of what a Christian leader should be. I have participated in some of his crusades a couple of times in Atlanta. I’ve seen the profound impact he’s had on me personally, and on other people who were not Christians and accepted Christ as Savior.

Contemplation of life after retirement and life after death can help you deal with contemporary challenges.

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

I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up.

When I feel I’m doing too much, I do less if I can.

There’s a part of you – the born-again part, your spirit – that’s dead to sin. That’s why it bothers you now when you sin. The ‚wilderness‘ part of you – your soul – is your unrenewed mind, out-of-control emotions, and stubborn will.

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

If we don’t plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don’t have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don’t have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.

And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge.

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It’s just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.