Prayer is naught but a rising desire of the heart into God by withdrawing of the heart from all earthly thoughts.

It is easier to renounce worldly possessions than it is to renounce the love of them

When you attack the roots of sin, fix your thought more on the God you desire than on the sin you abhor.

I desire the love of God not because I am worthy, but because I am unworthy.

Regard yourself all the more as a sinner because you cannot feel yourself to be what you are.

What is humility but truthfulness? There is no real difference.

One who loves God retains this humility at all times, not with weariness and struggle, but with pleasure and gladness.

We therefore need to know the gifts given us by God, so that we may use them, for by these we shall be saved.

Don't tie your success to anything other than what's inside you

Lies can't grow. Once plucked they can only wither. But every truth, once planted, grows into a tall, noble tree.

The lack of limitless positive imagination has undoubtedly led many people with great potential to settle for a mediocre state of living.

To me you were home, to you I was just a vacation.

Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.

Intuition (is) perception via the unconscious

Change is hard because people wear themselves out. And that’s the second surprise about change: What looks like laziness is often exhaustion.

I've never been good at rock'n'roll songs, anyway; either I'm blessed or I'm cursed, but whatever I write comes out sounding old.

The one thing government has which we (you or I or any corporation) DON'T have, is the ability to use deadly force to accomplish its goals.

I'm a future legend. And you're the legend killer.