To love those who hate us is to refuse to borrow their hatred.

We ask, ‘Why the need for God?’ Maybe the better question is ‘Why the need not to need Him?’ And could it be that that question in fact evidences our need for Him?

You are not made in ‘your image’. You are, in fact, made in ‘God’s image’. Therefore, which one are you looking for when you look in the mirror?

If I’ve prayed, I never have to worry about being the first one to show up.

In the end, if we don't have God we don't have anything other than an end.

The darkness that follows a sunset is never so dark that it can change the inevitability of a sunrise.

Faith is rare because fear is rampant. For faith will demand that I step into places that fear itself fears to go.

Forgiveness allows the burdens that we carry to become the histories that we forget.

When we choose to stay down, we are in reality confusing wisdom with cowardice. When we choose to stand back up, we are using wisdom to overcome cowardice.

I can arrogantly brag that the doors I choose in life open wide and grant me unobstructed passage. But the widest doors tend to lead to the worst places.

A compass calibrated by my greed is a rather shrewd way to legitimize my agenda. However, true north on a compass such as this is a straight line to the edge of a really big cliff.

Our mind has its own ideal time, which is no other but the consciousness of the progressive development of our beings.

Patience requires a slowing down, a spaciousness, a sense of ease.

You're going to make the new friend impressedif you keep remember her when she'd forgotten.

I have a massage when I want to relax. I love being pampered. I love island massages when you're outside in the fresh air.

If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.

A mind truly cultivated never feels that the intellectual process is complete until it can reproduce in some media the thing which it has absorbed.

Ive never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography.

The only one who can make you give up is yourself.

My mother and I never got along, not even when I was a child.

I'm always on to something else. It's like, I'm sitting here now jotting down notes for something that's in my head. There's always something going on in my head, and I have to just keep executing.