Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.

I think my vice would be outdoing myself.

When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It’s like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.

I can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

I fear that there are too many priesthood bearers who have done little or nothing to develop their ability to access the powers of Heaven.

It doesn’t matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.

Around every corner, always protect the engine that powers you.

There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.

Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

Lord, help my poor soul.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman’s skillet and the man’s ax-helve.

Take the complications, rules, shoulds, musts, have tos, and so on out of your life. By uncomplicating your life and removing the trivial pursuits that occupy so much of it, you open a channel for the genius within you to emerge.

He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

Sure I believe in God and the Devil, but they don’t have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.

When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

God has entrusted me with myself.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.

Man takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes its law from the Tao. The law of the Tao is its being what it is.

There is not a separate God for each person. There is one universal intelligence flowing through all of us.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

There’s plenty about God that I don’t understand and can’t explain. But I come back to my core belief that God is good, that He’s for us.

Having a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing seems to me to be one of the most basic principles that you can adopt to contribute to individual and world peace.

I don’t hate women – they just sometimes make me mad.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Naturally, everybody has certain things they wish they hadn’t done in life. They wish they hadn’t kicked their dog when they were ten or something.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

I just feel so much more comfortable and confident every game I play.

I do not live on false promises. I cannot afford to live on bad advice.

I have survivor’s curiosity, I guess.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

I worked with someone who told me they’d never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.

God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!

Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

I suppose for a very long time I’ve been trying to understand how it is that people might make sense out of their lives and make meaning and make their lives meaningful in the face of the trouble that life brings.

Choose people who lift you up.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

You can’t have it all, all at once. Who – man or woman – has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

The way I approach this thing, when I started to get my head screwed on straight and really trying to make something of myself as an artist, when I was 19 or 20, it became more about function for me. Like, what is this song doing to you? What is the function of this type of artform? What is it doing?

The advice I’ve been giving to people all my life – that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can’t give up politics, it won’t give you up – was the advice I should have been taking myself.

It was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion.

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.