You don’t have to give way to careless speech or complaining. You don’t have to let your feelings get in the way of what God wants to do in your life.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

These are not dark days: these are great days – the greatest days our country has ever lived.

I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all.

The incomparable greatness of the religions of the East lies in their having been second to none in vibrating with the passion for unity. This note, which is essential to every form of mysticism, has even penetrated them so deeply that we find ourselves falling under a spell simply by uttering the names of their Gods.

The more you seek the uncomfortable, the more you will become comfortable.

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Everything is an open book. I don’t speak on other people’s hardship, but if it happened in my life or something that has been an experience on my particular journey, I’m going to talk about it. That’s what my fan base appreciates the most. I’m universal. You can relate to the things I say or that I go through.

Over the years, I’ve learned that a confident person doesn’t concentrate or focus on their weaknesses – they maximize their strengths.

I love being busy.

Before finding music, I didn’t have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

The most important 6 inches on the battlefield is between your ears.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

You make yourself broad. You make yourself appealing. ‚Hey, y’all, I’m cool with everybody.‘ That’s my message.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

I am happy and I’m single.

Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life.

I’m super self-critical, which I think is good, because then I get exactly what I want. I’m critical of other people, too – I try not to be, though.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

What I enjoy most is doing something I’ve never done before.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? 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.

All my adult life people have been helping me.

Me, as a person, I grow. I’m like a chameleon. You know? That is a gift and a curse for me. But more so a gift, because it never puts me in a box.

I never saw myself as a folk singer.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.

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.

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

I’m not the same man I used to be, I’m not out hell-raising, stuff like that. I am a changed man.

I’ve been saying for a couple of years now that people need to let God out of the Sunday morning box, that He doesn’t want to just be with you for an hour or two on Sunday morning and then put back in His box to sit there until you have an emergency, but He wants to invade your Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.

I’m very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn’t think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that’s happening to me. I’m rather surprised at who I am, because I’m actually like my dad!

As apostles and prophets, we are concerned not only for our children and grandchildren but for yours as well – and for each of God’s children.

Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

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.

There are many, many Christians who practice Buddhism, and they become better and better Christians all the time.

I felt I had to solve everyone’s problems.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

I answer only to God.

Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.

You’ll never do a whole lot unless you’re brave enough to try.

I’ve got a terrible memory; it’s probably because I’m always concentrating on what I’m doing now.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

Well, I was 29 years old when I came to the United States Senate, and I have learned a lot.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

No matter what your mission is, have some notion in your head. Forget the model, whether it’s government or nonprofit or profit. Ask yourself the more important question: Is my mission improving the world? Are you sure about it? Seek to disconfirm that all the time. And if you can, change your mission.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

When I was writing ‚Kitchen Confidential,‘ I was in my 40s, I had never paid rent on time, I was 10 years behind on my taxes, I had never owned my own furniture or a car.

Life isn’t fair, but God is.

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

I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness. Heaven knows that John the Baptist was not more eager to get all his fellow sinners into the Jordan than I to baptize all of mine in the beauty of God’s mountains.