Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

Nothing reflects so much honor on a workman as a trial of his work and its endurance of it. So it is with God. It honors Him when His saints preserve their integrity.

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.

When I was growing up, there was nobody in my family – not even my mother – who I could look to and be like, ‚I know you’ve never said anything homophobic.‘ So, you know, you worry about people in the business who you’ve heard talk that way. Some of my heroes coming up talk recklessly like that.

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.

Well, I screwed it up real good, didn’t I?

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much larger. Some are villains and others are good guys. But all of them are necessary; otherwise, they wouldn’t be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.

In this quest to seek and find God in all things, there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good.

If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.

It’s time to commit to finding the answer, to search for life beyond Earth. Mankind has a deep need to explore, to learn, to know. We also happen to be sociable creatures. It is important for us to know if we are alone in the dark.

It’s easy to forget who you are.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

God’s angels often protect his servants from potential enemies.

I’m almost like three people. There’s me the, Dolly, the person. There’s me, the star. And then there’s me, the manager.

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn’t concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man’s soul.

I don’t know what ‚normal‘ means, anyway.

I haven’t changed at all. I’m the same as when I was 11.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

God answers prayers, but he doesn’t always answer it your way.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

Many people, especially young people, would like to be more independent and on their own. But it is very difficult and they suffer from feelings of isolation. I think that is one reason why young readers support my work.

I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you’re grateful, you’ll see God open up new doors.

As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.

I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, ‚Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.‘

God wants to help us… He loves us… we are His children. But He will not force His help on us at any time. He sees us when we struggle and fight and complain our way through things. And I believe it breaks His heart, when all we have to do is ask Him for help.

No parent is perfect; we all can look back and think of things we could’ve done to help our children be better prepared for adulthood. And sometimes it’s best to admit it to them and encourage them to learn from our mistakes.

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.

I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.

Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

Because I believe in God and have faith in God, it doesn’t mean I am immortal. It doesn’t mean I am immune, as has been claimed. I am as scared as anyone of getting hurt, especially driving a Formula One car.

All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.

What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can’t I just be an ordinary woman?

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.

The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.

As you think, so shall you become.

Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man’s resources?

If God is just, I tremble for my country.

The mere thought hadn’t even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.

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.

It is important to remember yourself.

If somebody thinks they’re a hedgehog, presumably you just give ‚em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.

God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn’t always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.

It’s normal for human beings to identify with their own separate self. The problem is that we get caught in that notion of ourself as a separate individual and caught in that individual self’s agenda.

Worry – a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.

Did you know there’s a difference between being busy and being fruitful? Did you ever stop to think that just being busy – running around in circles all day but not accomplishing anything – is the same as wasting your time? It’s frustrating to expend so much energy and time and not have any fruit from your effort!

For me, the Immaculate Conception is the feast of ‚passive action,‘ the action that functions simply by the transmission through us of divine energy. Purity, in spite of outward appearances, is essentially an active virtue, because it concentrates God in us and on those who are subject to our influence.

I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I’m on course, and I’m doing what God wants me to do. I’m real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.

Somewhere deep down there’s a decent man in me, he just can’t be found.