A good thing to remember is somebody’s got it a lot worse than we do.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

I’m actually starting to like more and more people who have convictions that are unpopular.

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.

A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.

Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.

If you can ask a young man to give his life for his country, you can lead people.

I want people to draw strength from me.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy’s tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

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

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

The fame isn’t important to me. It’s a blessing to have. Having so many people that support me, that love me and listen to my music, is beautiful.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

You can’t die with an unfinished book.

I had no bad moment in my relationship with Dortmund. Not one second.

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

My life is my message.

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

It’s hard for me to grasp the concept of somebody being nervous when I’m talking to them.

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.

What I have is a malevolent curiosity. That’s what drives my need to write and what probably leads me to look at things a little askew. I do tend to take a different perspective from most people.

I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I’ll have a window with a view.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

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

I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.

When I was 18, I thought that, to be a romantic, you couldn’t live past 30.

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.

Never be ashamed! There’s some who’ll hold it against you, but they’re not worth bothering with.

Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Every wall is a door.

The future will be better tomorrow.

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

Prince Charles is definitely my hero; he uses his position to do only good in this world.

I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

We just cannot worry about ourselves.

I really appreciate the moments that I was able to win rap album of the year or whatever.

I modelled my looks on the town tramp.

You don’t have to be a renowned artist like Q-Tip to try your hand at poetry. You don’t need any special equipment – that’s the beauty of it.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.