It's weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them.

The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line.

I now see my life, not as a slow shaping of achievment to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery of a purpose which I did not know.

There seemed to be endless obstacles preventing me from living with my eyes open, but as I gradually followed up clue after clue it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.

I began to have an idea of my life not as the slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know.

Sometimes I found that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable.

There seemed to be endless obstacles-it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.

There seemed to be endless obstacles ... it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.

It is weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them.

God wanted him to go to Him with his deepest needs, to stop looking elsewhere, so that he could be made whole again.

He can't value you more than you value yourself.

FOLLY, n. That "gift and faculty divine" whose creative and controlling energy inspires Man's mind, guides his actions and adorns his life.

You never know what's right, what you feel inside versus what is portrayed.

I would not be happy to do what I do unless I felt that the large audience wanted it.

However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.

Failure gave me strength. Pain was my motivation

I was made to believe that my life was going to be fixed and it wasn't. I'm still the same loser who had flown to Los Angeles on my sister's frequent flier miles just six days before.

Everyone wants to look their best, everyone has dreams of wanting to look like something else. But we are who we are.

If you incline towards God the passions that enslaves you will be rendered powerless.