God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

It doesn’t matter who likes you or doesn’t like you, all that matters is that God likes you. He accepts you, he approves of you.

I don’t really know that much about love, it turns out.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

When I was making the early stuff, I never expected it to be so big. I was in my own kind of bubble. I never wanted to tour; I just wanted to create music and make a diary I could put out into the world. And sometimes, I became the characters.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

We’re all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

It’s amazing: I am a New Yorker. It’s strange; I never thought I would be.

Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

Though lovers be lost, love shall not.

I think my vice would be outdoing myself.

Things do not always happen the way I would like them to happen, and I had better get used to that.

We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist.

If one has the answers to all the questions – that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble.

A pessimist? That’s a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.

I’ve learned a lot since I was a new mother. My approach to struggle and shame now is to talk to yourself like you’d talk to someone you love and reach out to tell your story.

I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.

When it comes to our everyday habits, it’s important to ask: ‚Am I putting God first?‘

I’m not looking to freak people out – eating rodents or bugs. I don’t do that anymore.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

I can’t prove it scientifically, that there’s a God, but I believe.

I’m a strict, strict agnostic. It’s very different from a casual, ‚I don’t know.‘ It’s that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can’t present it as fact.

I even found it difficult to watch myself playing on TV because I couldn’t identify with the person on the screen. I couldn’t get to grips with it. It was as if it was all happening to someone else.

When I was married, I definitely went through a lying period.

The single most powerful thing I can be is to be myself.

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

Really showing love requires more than just words.

A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.

All of the people in my life whom I consider to be close friends or colleagues are good thinkers.

The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.

I never fall in love.

If you try to protect yourself from pain, it becomes a stone in your heart. But the more you learn to face things, the more likely that stone can become a pearl.

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

I’m almost like three people. There’s me the, Dolly, the person. There’s me, the star. And then there’s me, the manager.

That’s the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God – so do I buy that one? If all the other cliches are true… Hell, don’t pose me that one.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

When we enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, something wonderful happens: God begins to change our desires, and we want to be more like Him.

I always had faith in my creative capacity.

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

Absolutely not. I have no problem with commitment. In fact, I love having someone in my life.

It’s true my father abused me and didn’t love and protect me the way he should have, and at times it seemed no one would ever help me and it would never end. But God always had a plan for my life, and He has redeemed me.

I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.

Jesus teaches us another way: Go out. Go out and share your testimony, go out and interact with your brothers, go out and share, go out and ask. Become the Word in body as well as spirit.

The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.