What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.

We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.

I have retired, but if there’s anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.

Motives reveal why we do what we do, which is actually more important to God than what we’re doing.

Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life’s a Great Balancing Act.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place.

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‚I’ll buy a million dollars‘ worth of love.‘ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

If you give, you will be blessed.

Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than ‚try to be a little kinder.‘

While there’s life, there’s hope.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

In football, it’s the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate. Each guy is charged with upholding his end, nothing more. In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

When you have kids, you see life through different eyes. You feel love more deeply and are maybe a little more compassionate. It’s inevitable that that would make its way into your songwriting.

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.

Information helps you to see that you’re not alone. That there’s somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who all have wept, who’ve all longed and lost, who’ve all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you’re not really any different from everyone else.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

I live in a crazy time.

Do you know the only value life has is what life puts on itself?

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you – until you get your revenge.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

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

The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

An unused life is an early death.

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way.

Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.

Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.

I don’t keep people around me that aren’t family. You don’t get to stay. Unless you’re eating at the table with us, you’re not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.

One of the most important decisions you’ll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

‚Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

If you’re in trouble, or hurt or need – go to the poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.

Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

One likes people much better when they’re battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.

America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

I found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realise is that you’re not alone.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

I think sometimes the critics want me to beat people down, and that’s not in me. I want to lift people up.

Everyone has the potential to become an encourager. You don’t have to be rich. You don’t have to be a genius. You don’t have to have it all together. All you have to do is care about people and initiate.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.