Within all of us is a divine capacity to manifest and attract all that we need and desire.

I think there is a lot made out of age, and what age you feel.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.

God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!

I’m more of a realist when it comes to life, and I’d much rather my mother be in a spiritual place in Heaven than in a bed, sick, fighting for her life.

By its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross. It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.

Jesus teaches us another way: Go out. Go out and share your testimony, go out and interact with your brothers, go out and share, go out and ask. Become the Word in body as well as spirit.

If you haven’t forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others.

I am simply trying to struggle through life; trying to do God’s bidding.

God doesn’t do things halfway. He goes all out! When God does something, it’s not just barely enough, mediocre or lukewarm.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

The advice I’ve been giving to people all my life – that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can’t give up politics, it won’t give you up – was the advice I should have been taking myself.

If I went back to my 20-year-old self, what I would tell my 20-year-old self is, ‚You don’t know anything.‘ Because everyone, when they’re young, they think they know what’s going on in the world, and you don’t.

It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.

Something I’ve realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we’re smart about it.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

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

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

I will praise any man that will praise me.

I always say this about my music, and music in general: Music is like a time capsule. Each album reflects what I’m going through or what’s going on in my life at that moment.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

I’m no genius.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

I’m reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Some days I totally appreciate everything that’s happening to me, and some days I feel everyone’s waiting for me to mess up.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

The ‚soul‘ is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.

Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, ‚O God, forgive me,‘ or ‚Help me.‘

The first step in a person’s salvation is knowledge of their sin.

When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.

You don’t look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

Be careful what you set your heart upon – for it will surely be yours.

Thought is powerful in all phases. Even in my career, even in my life, things end up exactly how I visualized them.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

I don’t think I’ve ever been an agnostic. I’ve always thought there’s a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there’s a world to come.

I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I’ll be OK. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me.

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

I’ve taught a lot about prayer over the years and how it is really just talking to God.

Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Through the ages, many of His children have had access to the blessings of the gospel, but many more have not.

I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.

Spiritual people don’t float around all day on clouds of glory; they live in the real world and deal with real issues in real ways.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

The major religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, they deny somehow that God has a feminine face. However, if you go to the holy texts, you see there is this feminine presence.

I know I got angels watchin me from the other side.

You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It’s your call.

Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.

I think the best thing I ever did with my life was stand up and say I’ve got Alzheimer’s.

I’m an introvert somewhat. There could be a room full of people, I’ll go stand in the corner.

When Jesus comes to live in our hearts, the seed of holiness is planted.

When I was 8 years old I became a mute and was a mute until I was 13, and I thought of my whole body as an ear, so I can go into a crowd and sit still and absorb all sound. That talent or ability has lasted and served me until today.

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.