There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.

Integrity is never painless.

Evil people hate the light because it reveals themselves to themselves. ... They will destroy the light, the goodness, the love in order to avoid the pain of self-awareness. ... [E]vil is laziness carried to its ultimate, extraordinary extreme.

There is no virtue inherent in un-constructive suffering.

I have a very full and busy life and occasionally I am asked, Scotty, how can you do all that you do? The most telling reply I can give is: Because I spend at least two hours a day doing nothing.

God wants us to become himself or herself or itself. We are growing toward Godhood. God is the goal of evolution.

Self examination is the key to insight, which is the key to wisdom