The world is not your enemy

Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else, but simply to realize where you already are.

Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all. What is happening? What do you feel? What do you see? What do you hear?

...the secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is.

A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other.

A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things to look at.

Be sure to lie to your kids about the benevolent, all-seeing Santa Claus. It will prepare them for an adulthood of believing in God.

Faith is a place of mystery, where we find the courage to believe in what we cannot see and the strength to let go of our fear of uncertainty.

When you accept the fact that your true identity includes being an overcomer, you will never settle for less than a miracle.

There is no sin too great for God's grace. There is no habit too big for his healing. There is no label too strong for his love.

A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ.

Har' icyumba satani atemerewe kujyamo n'umutima wawe kereste wowe umwemereye

He spent the afternoon alone in the streets.

Isn't it time for you to free yourself from your past in order to enjoy the beauty of the present?

The picture we present to ourselves of who we think we ought to be obscures who we really are.

We must be laid like a brand in the fire ... if we would gain immortal youth.

Actor is an odd profession, and sometimes people get jealous, but I haven't really experienced any of that. Everyone's been really happy for me, which is really, really great.

Economists are very good at saying that something cannot go on forever, but not so good at saying when it will stop.

Inferior thinking and writing will make a name for a man among inferior people, who in all ages and countries, are the majority.

If a script is good, you are 10 steps into the part just reading it. But my choices are not all down to my taste. It is about people you have worked with before.

The brain forgets much, but the lower back remembers everything.