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

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline… because you need to be alone to find out anything.

I thought I would be a guy on the radio.

If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?

The world can criticize me, but l can always criticize it back.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it – I think that’s important.

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.

My friends, there are no friends.

I was born on a full moon. Both my children were born on full moons, too. Some people say that’s scary. It is what it is, man, I don’t be trippin‘. I couldn’t tell God when I wanted to be born.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

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

If something can corrupt you, you’re corrupted already.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

It seems to me that terrestrial beings, as they become more autonomous, psychologically richer, shut themselves up in a way against one another, and at the same time gradually become strangers to the cosmic environment and currents, impenetrable to one another, and incapable of exteriorizing themselves.

I think and that is all that I am.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

God is everywhere.

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl.

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

I’m just wanting to make the proper breakfast and keep the house. That’s my passion. At the request of my kids, I’m taking cooking classes. As I go to sleep at night, I think, ‚Did I do a great job as a mom, or was that an average day?‘

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

I suppose for a very long time I’ve been trying to understand how it is that people might make sense out of their lives and make meaning and make their lives meaningful in the face of the trouble that life brings.

I’m a super-duper over-analyzer. You mix that with self-doubt and pressure, and that’s never healthy.

I’m not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolation and abandonment.

Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!

I think God’s going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.

I don’t think I’m bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

It’s not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do – everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls.

Only the shallow know themselves.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

Don’t throw stones at your neighbors if your own windows are glass.

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

Never take anything for granted.

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone’s wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

God’s love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

The hardest thing for – not only an artist but for anybody to do is look themselves in the mirror and acknowledge, you know, their own flaws and fears and imperfections and put them out there in the open for people to relate to it.

Rocks and waters, etc., are words of God, and so are men. We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love.

I’m the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that’s horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it.

It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be.

I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering – because you can’t take it in all at once.

Risk is a part of God’s game, alike for men and nations.

Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.

Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.

I don’t write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches.

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

We all have done something unethical.

Heaven means to be one with God.

Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.

Morality is of the highest importance – but for us, not for God.

God has given us two hands – one to receive with and the other to give with. We are not cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing.