Without forgiveness, there’s no future.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies – it is the first law of nature.

A president can ask for reconciliation in the racial conflict that divides Americans. But reconciliation comes only from the hearts of people.

I was not an anthropology student prior to the war. I took it up as part of a personal readjustment following some bewildering experiences as an infantryman and later as a prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany. The science of the Study of Man has been extremely satisfactory from that personal standpoint.

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.

Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you’ve closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.

I’m trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It’s so easy to get turned.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

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

I was at a New Year’s Eve party, and someone asked me how was my year, and I said, ‚I honestly think 2011 was the best year of my entire life,‘ and I actually meant it.

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.

My mother did not like children.

You’ll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.

Once I realized that right thinking is vital to victorious living, I got more serious about thinking about what I was thinking about, and choosing my thoughts carefully.

I had the classic 40 meltdown. I did. It’s embarrassing. It was pretty funny. But then I recovered. To me, it was like a second adolescence. Hormonally, my body was changing, my mind was changing, and so my relationship to myself and the world around me came to this assault of finiteness.

These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.

The work is the work. The work is not me.

I never want to change so much that people can’t recognize me.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

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

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

Joanne‘ is a progression for me. It was about going into the studio and forgetting that I was famous.

All of us are mentors. You’re mentors right here and now. And one of the things I’ve always done throughout my life, I have always found that person, that group of people that I was going to reach my hand out and help bring them along with me.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

I’m sure I’ve changed my mind about something. Inevitably, when we grow up – as we get more experience and wiser. Well, I’ve changed my mind about some food that I didn’t like when I was young.

I always wanted a family.

I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine.

Man’s task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

I let the American people down.

I think I have a dualistic nature.

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.

I’ve been reckless, but I’m not a rebel without a cause.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

You can’t do something forever.

My moms always told me, ‚How long you gonna play the victim?‘ I can say I’m mad and I hate everything, but nothing really changes until I change myself.

When you make a mistake and the devil comes and tells you ‚You’re no good,‘ you don’t have to take on the guilt and condemnation he wants to put on you. No! You can immediately confess your mistake to God, thank Him for forgiving you and cleansing you with the blood of Jesus, and move forward in the victory of His grace and forgiveness.

Some people are very good at being ‚stars‘ and it suits them. I’m grudging about it and I find it annoying.

I am God’s vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

Deficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

It’s much worse to read criticism about your son than yourself.

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – never knowing.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

Lots of songs aren’t even from my experiences, but they’re about accepting… the dark things about yourself.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

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

The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

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.

Grief changes shape, but it never ends.

They would not find me changed from him they knew – only more sure of all I thought was true.

I think beating myself up sometimes and knowing I am not happy when I do it makes me work harder to do a good job.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.