More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ‚This is a misfortune‘ but ‚To bear this worthily is good fortune.‘

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

My company survives because I’ve learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

The trouble ain’t that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain’t distributed right.

When your dream is bigger than you are, you only have two choices: give up or get help.

I actually feel like women in my position, when we have all at our disposal to help us, shouldn’t complain when we consider all of the people who are really struggling and don’t have the means or support. Many people are single, raising children. That’s hard.

If you want what you’re saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody’s life. Your own, first.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

When you’re in prison, you want to know that you were thought about.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

The answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved more to do everything they can to make the communities around them as strong as they possibly can.

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Cunning… is but the low mimic of wisdom.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

Fortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I’m very grateful for the support and kindness that we’ve gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband’s policies or what have you, they care about children and that’s been good to see.

If you ever need anything please don’t hesitate to ask someone else first.

You can’t have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

Thomas Jefferson once said, ‚We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.‘ And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.

A wise woman wishes to be no one’s enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone’s victim.

A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Compliment three people every day.

Wealthy men can’t live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.

There is something about building up a comradeship – that I still believe is the greatest of all feats – and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It’s the intense effort, the giving of everything you’ve got. It’s really a very pleasant sensation.

All my adult life people have been helping me.

I don’t like to beat people down. They need to be lifted up.

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.

The blessed of us must save the less of us. I’m blessed, and yeah, I’m planning to go to Heaven.

It is easy to dismiss the world as ‚irrelevant,‘ or consumed by ‚paranoid anti-Americanism,‘ but perhaps not wise.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

A witty saying proves nothing.

Transforming yourself into a deep listener will not only prove more amusing as you open your mind to their mind, but you will gain the most invaluable lessons about human psychology.

To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Everyone needs a coach. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.

Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you’re feeling bad, you just look at the cats, you’ll feel better because they know that everything is just as it is. There’s nothing to get excited about. They just know. They’re saviours.

Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.