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

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.

If in prayer I come before a throne of grace, the faults of my prayer will be overlooked.

People can try to reinvent themselves. I don’t think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you’ve done up to now.

You better take care of me Lord, if you don’t you’re gonna have me on your hands.

Everywhere on Earth, at this moment, in the new spiritual atmosphere created by the appearance of the idea of evolution, there float, in a state of extreme mutual sensitivity, love of God and faith in the world: the two essential components of the Ultra-human.

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

I don’t set out to write about spirituality; I am free to do something different every time.

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

Only the insecure strive for security.

What nourishes me also destroys me.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

You have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity.

The question is not, ‚Do you have a problem?‘ The question is, ‚Does the problem have you?‘

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‚I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.‘

Remember, we are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

I want to believe that I am improving. This is something that I take really seriously.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

There’s not some idea I’m going to create a work that’s going to change everybody’s consciousness.

Man has throughout the ages been seeking something beyond himself, beyond material welfare – something we call truth or God or reality, a timeless state – something that cannot be disturbed by circumstances, by thought or by human corruption.

I imagine I will be less involved in film and be focused more on family and foreign affairs.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

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

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

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

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

I sincerely hope I can contribute to the progress there has been in relations between Jews and Catholics since the Second Vatican Council in a spirit of renewed collaboration.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It’s a natural process.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.

Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I’m referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man.

Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

I’ve done some analysis of the biblical stories as part of my psychological work. I knew that I had more to do, and every time I’ve done it, it’s been extremely valuable. It makes me a better teacher because I have a richer understanding of cultural history.

I’m considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I’ve never been bored in my life.

Seemingly, man has learned to live without God, preoccupied and indifferent toward Him and concerned only about material security and pleasure.

In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.

Arthur Miller wouldn’t have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don’t dictate my happiness, my inner peace.

I do believe in God. But you won’t find me visiting temples every now and then. I believe in self-realization. Peace of mind matters a lot to me. What’s the point in doing something just for the sake of it? I’d rather do something I like doing as long as I’m being true to myself.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

Relish everything that’s inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.

My life is mine to remember.

I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person’s life. God is in everyone’s life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else – God is in this person’s life. You can – you must – try to seek God in every human life.

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.