To be forgiven is not enough; we must put an end to the very need to be forgiven.

Spiritual life is like a moving sidewalk. Whether you go with it or spend your whole life running against it, you're still going to be taken along.

When there is no longer a cyclone, there is no longer an eye. So the storms, crises and sufferings of life are a way of finding the eye.

The truest communication with God is absolute, total silence; there is not a single word in existence that can convey this communication.

This search for perfection - which is a search for divinity - is nothing more than the failure to accept our existence the way it is.

In some ways, all our experiences of God are beyond belief, because all conceptual beliefs pale when compared to the experiential reality.

Once beyond the self, however, holiness is no longer possible, because now, there is nothing left to give and no-one left to do the giving.

Spiritual life is like a moving sidewalk. Whether you go with it or spend your whole life running against it you're still going to be taken along.

There’s secrets hiding inside this six-string just waitin’ for somebody to find ‘em and turn ‘em into music.

The Great stories give us the hope and the courage to survive life.

My dad said, 'Stay humble, and you gotta work harder than everybody else.' My mom said, 'Always be yourself.' She always told me only God can judge me.

Whatever I thought might hold me back, I avoided. I crossed girls off my list, except as tools for my sexual needs.

A prudent man will think more important what fate has conceded to him, than what it has denied.

Theoretically, there is nothing that can stop the government from taxing 100 per cent of income so long as the people get benefits from the government commensurate with their income which is taxed.

There was a point in time when I was in dire need of changing the way the model agency was working.

I don't write. I usually look for material by other people. Sometimes I change things or adapt things but I don't write from scratch. I wish I had that ability.

I find there's almost no place to put an award that one's quite comfortable with.

There is always one way to make anybody do anything - the trouble is to find it.