“Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.”

The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.

Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up, now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.

You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.

No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.

Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.

People can’t be talked out of illusions.

It’s better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way.

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.

Society is our extended mind and body.

Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.

Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

The present is always changing the past.

Democracy, Republic: What do these words signify? What have they changed in the world? Have men become better, more loyal, kinder? Are the people happier? All goes on as before, as always. Illusions, illusions.

You can change environments, but until you change yourself, nothing else will ever change.

I’m not big on faith rules, but if I had to choose one, it would be that every person must choose a faith issue upon which to hang her hat that requires her to change – not somebody else.

If there’s something in your life that you know needs changing, make sure you change it before God’s got to change it. Because if God’s got to change it, you ain’t going to like it.

Things don’t always turn out exactly the way you want them to be and you feel disappointed. You are not always going to be the winner. That’s when you have to stop and figure out why things happened the way they did and what you can do to change them.

You don’t change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.

God is busy making you someone no one else has ever been.

The fun never goes out, but it changes with the years, with winning and losing.