Despite all of our incessant tinkering, we can’t manufacture the things we most desperately need. And if perchance we do, they will never be more than pathetically emaciated facsimiles that will leave us emaciated. And until we finally realize that we can only ‘find’ these things, we will never sense any compulsion to ‘find’ God.

It’s not that mankind is failing. Rather, it’s that mankind has failed to understand that failure is most often a choice based on the belief that we cannot succeed.

I am here to tell you that the limitations that you see within yourself are a manifestation of everything except yourself.

I spend a tremendous amount of time carefully choosing the roles I wish to play so that I can run from the role I was born to play. And if I keep on doing that, I will eventually set foot in my grave never having set foot on the stage.

I pretend to give gifts that people pretend to be gifts so that I can pretend that I gave something that actually cost me something. And what pretending of this sort gives me is the gift of a pretend life.

Truth has legs that are longer than any of our lies. In time it will catch up to us, not because the truth has longer legs but because lies have no legs.

It is in opposing the world’s lies that we impose truth in our hearts.

What keeps us stuck and forever languishing in the muck and mire of whatever situation we're in is the utterly convincing but entirely false belief that there's nothing in our situation that we can do other than be stuck. Therefore, what's got us stuck in this mess has nothing to do with our situation, but everything to do with our belief about our situation.

To ‘pretend’ is to say that I’m willing to waste the precious energy that it takes to pretend, and I’m unwilling to cultivate the bravery that it takes to be real. And I am at a complete loss to pretend that either of these aren’t true.