Not being a man of means, I knew that if I did not stay sober enough to earn money, I would run out of liquor.

I was not an atheist. Few people really are, for that means blind faith in the strange proposition that this universe originated in a cipher and aimlessly rushes nowhere.

I had sent her to four consecutive psychiatrists, and not one of them had gotten me sober.

No one waits to trap him in a lie. He is told what lies he is getting ready to tell.

And acceptance is the answer to all my problems today. ... I can find no serenity until I accept that person place thing or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment.

Our human resources as marshalled by the will were not sufficient they failed utterly.... Every day is a day when we must carry the vision of God's will into all our activities.

I been with strangers all day and they treated me like family. I come in here to family and you treat me like a stranger.

I think I'm basically the same guy I always was. Maybe I've learned, through experience, to rein in some of the anger and temper they say redheads normally have.

My parents just neglected me, I wasn't abused or anything.

When we learn to move through suffering, rather than avoid it, then we greet it differently. We become willing to let it teach us. We even begin to see how God can use it for some larger end.

The man who does not betake himself at once and desperately to sawing is called a loafer, though he may be knocking at the doors of heaven all the while.

Big visions are realized through small steps.

Skepticism? Yes, but a saint is a skeptic once in twenty-four hours.

A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.

Love will find you when you least expect it.

Which religion gives the greatest joy to God? That which inspires human beings to practice Ahimsa and compassion to all creatures.