I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

The older I get, the better I understand that every day is a gift.

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

At the end of the day, I understand that life has road blocks, and life is like school – you’ll be tested; we gotta pass it.

The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: ‚Does your teacher use class time well?‘ and, ‚When you’re confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?‘

When we believe the best of people, we let go of each thing they do that is hurtful to us. And we choose to think things like, ‚I don’t believe they meant to hurt me.‘ ‚Maybe they’re having a bad day or don’t feel well.‘ ‚They probably don’t even realize how they sound.‘

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

If you are the kind of person who is waiting for the ‚right‘ thing to happen, you might wait for a long time. It’s like waiting for all the traffic lights to be green for five miles before starting the trip.

The generous Critic fann’d the Poet’s fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.

We have language and they do not. Chimps communicate by embracing, patting, looking – all these things. And they have lots of sounds. But they cannot sit and discuss. They cannot teach about things that are not present, as far as we know.

I’m no longer just a candidate. I’m the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn’t return. I’ve shared the pain of families who’ve lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who’ve lost their jobs.

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than it takes to see the bad.

I didn’t want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a degree because Louis Leakey said I needed one, which was right, and once I succeeded I could get back to the field.

I don’t see the point of doing an interview unless you’re going to share the things you learn in life and the mistakes you make. So to admit that I’m extremely human and have done some dark things I don’t think makes me unusual or unusually dark. I think it actually is the right thing to do, and I’d like to think it’s the nice thing to do.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

It is extremely difficult to say how long the process actually took to finally achieve my fragrance, Boudoir, because there was a lot of time waiting around for other people.

That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

The wind can be quite extreme in England. We are not familiar with that in Germany, and you have to keep things simple.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

Great loves too must be endured.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

I don’t argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus‘ message was simple. Jesus didn’t go around condemning people.

I’m a pretty tough guy, you know. I’m a pretty hard man. I’ve got a lot of compassion, but I don’t waste time with people.

My main concern is meeting with public because my main commitment, main interest is promotion of human value, human affection, compassion and religious harmony.

Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

Songwriters, you have to work – you have to wait for residuals. You have to pray that the song’s going to be a hit. And then a year later, you might get a check.

It’s the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

I have finally decided to write my book on the spiritual life. I mean to put down as simply as possible the sort of ascetical or mystical teaching that I have been living and preaching so long. I call it ‚Le Milieu Divin,‘ but I am being careful to include nothing esoteric and the minimum of explicit philosophy.

I am not one who – who flamboyantly believes in throwing a lot of words around.

A saint is tolerant and is attentive to the pleadings of other human beings, not only to spoken messages but to unspoken messages as well.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

If you would judge, understand.

You have to understand that people that are hurting are going to criticize.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

When the people become involved in their government, government becomes more accountable, and our society is stronger, more compassionate, and better prepared for the challenges of the future.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

Rose Adams is a wonderful Christian woman who cared for my mother, Morrow Coffey Graham, in her last years of life.

Anyone who is practicing understanding and compassion can exemplify true power. Anyone can be a Buddha.

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

I know a dramatic role is going to happen, but you just got to be patient, you know? It’s going to happen when it’s supposed to happen. I’m not rushing it. I’m not trying to make it happen tomorrow.

The highest grade I’ve taught is the 11th grade, and the youngest I’ve taught is the 4th grade.

The first time you say something, it’s heard. The second time, it’s recognized, and the third time it’s learned.

Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

The best teacher is very interactive.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone.

God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.