I grew up and I became very successful at what I did as a young man. I became a work addict because this was the only way I could get any relief from this pain.

I am too old to think.

I remember when I was a little boy my father didn't love me; he couldn't. He loved my older brother but he couldn't love me somehow, at least not in a way I could understand it.

I wrote a book called The Taste of New Wine because I couldn't find a book that talked about the reality of the situation and how we were dishonest and afraid.

A lot of us have jobs where we need to give people structure but that is different from controlling.

I have learned to like myself for the first time and to have some serenity.

The whole Bible is the story of men and women trying to get back to God, to overcome that sin with sacrifices, good works, sermons, prophesy, witnessing, giving all kinds of things. It never worked.

The primary symptom of a controller is denial, that is I can't see its symptoms in myself.

Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.

Beneath all of these addictions is this disease, this control disease which is the mark of our society.

No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady.

I learned that the purpose of the Twelve Steps is to do the will of God.

Then one day I read about a book that said that the church is the only army that shoots its wounded.

I was taught that pain is bad.

Religious work is one of the best ways to keep from facing your reality if you are Christian, if you are using it to calm the pain, because that it what all addictions are, attempts to cover the pain of this spiritual disease.

We are a nation of people who are afraid we are not enough.

What happens is that people who are very religious but who are not in touch with reality, cannot be spiritual.

You are controlling because I want you to do it, not because of the situation or what needs to be done.

Feelings are like a color chart that God has given us.

There never was a social change in America without angry people at the heart.

Intimacy, as I am using it, is sharing my reality with you.

If God is in a life, it doesn't have to be big to be happy and to be important in His kingdom.

We live in a constant fear that our shortcomings will be exposed to family, to friends and to the world.

We religious controllers control in the name of Jesus and it is really painful to people.

We can't be intimate because we can't share feelings that we don't have.

I grew up and I became very successful at what I did as a young man. I became a work addict because this was the only way I could get any relief from this pain.

I am six feet tall. I am not supposed to be afraid.

A spiritual person is also in touch with his or her own reality, feelings and thoughts, and the reality of the people around him or her, not projecting on them.

My only hope to receive love is to let you see who I am, then I may believe you.

A forest is mystery but the desert is truth. Life pared to the bone.

Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new.

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner man, or more accurately, there is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself.

I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor am I of any caste.

I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is not in their power to help themselves.

I always looked for a man to rescue me and bring me happiness. I bought into that myth, of course, and looked for my own Prince Charming.

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.

Let me first state that I believe that marriage is a sacred union between one man and one woman.

A man must be strong in that profession, he must have vigor of body and mind, yet I am all out of breath if I walk up a hill; I have not the heart to crush even a fly.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

I believe that if a man does a job as well as a woman, he should be paid as much.

For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.

There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.

A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

If a man is dumb, someone is going to get the best of him, so why not you? If you don't, you're as dumb as he is.

Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.