Your life is important. Honor it. Fight for your highest possibilities.

The greater a child’s terror, and the earlier it is experienced, the harder it becomes to develop a strong and healthy sense of self.

Fear and pain should be treated as signals not to close our eyes but to open them wider.

We must become what we wish to teach.

I am responsible for my own existence and happiness.

A mind that trusts itself is light on its feet.

Everyone who has any familiarity with psychology knows about the danger of disowning the murderer within. Far fewer people understand the tragedy of disowning the hero within.

Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.

In the inner courtroom of my mind, mine is the only judgment that counts.

To persevere with the will to understand in the face of obstacles is the heroism of consciousness.

Most of us are capable of more than we believe.

He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.

The way I did the first album... the way I wrote 'Church'... was just to trust my instincts with the music and let it kind of do what it does.

Therefore Lord, not only are you that than which a greater cannot be thought but you are also something greater than can be thought.

When Eve dropped her shield of faith, every other piece of her spiritual armor became vulnerable.

Planning a career, I always find that such a tricky thing, because I don't have much of a plan, really.

Marriage is an institution, and you must be fully committed to it.

The movies helped define how I should be as a person.

You've got to play what people think you are, rather than what you are. You have to have a sense of what you are as you're playing what people think you are.

Fools multiply when wise men are silent.

Success means doing the best we can with what we have.