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

What good am I? I can’t have kids. I can’t cook. I’ve been divorced three times. Who would want me?

The only answer to fear is faith in God, knowing He loves you unconditionally and individually.

Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can’t get it out, I start feeling bad about myself – a lot of self-loathing.

Hermits have no peer pressure.

I’ve got a crush on my backing singer.

For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that’s something that we should think about.

The dieting wars have got to stop.

I’ll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it’s sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

The fact is that when you do something from your heart, you leave a heart print.

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

We seem gradually to be groping toward an understanding of the world of subatomic particles, but we really do not know how far we have yet to go in this task.

Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don’t know why he’s with me. I don’t know whether I’m good enough. But if I make him happy, then I’m everything I want to be.

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

If people wonder, yes, Hillary Clinton is my friend. She has been a friend to me and Barack and Malia and Sasha, and Bill and Chelsea have been embracing and supportive from the very day my husband took the oath of office.

I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on, whereas I, in my 20s, was reading everything. Everything seemed important. But they were only interested in the writers they admired when they were young, and I didn’t understand it then, but now, now I understand it.

Alimony – the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.

I try not to go around looking like a hag.

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn’t enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

I feel impressed to counsel those engaged in personal challenges to do right. In particular, my heart reaches out to those who feel discouraged by the magnitude of their struggle.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

There’s always going to be people who don’t understand or accept the united science, and I will just ignore them, as I’m only acting and communicating on the science.

Gravitation is, so far, not understandable in terms of other phenomena.

Your teammates give you the confidence. They give me the confidence all year, all postseason.

If every man loves his mother, he’s going to treat the ladies right, with love and respect.

I’m not generally a sensitive person, but I tend to be more sensitive toward others and what they’re going through. I don’t know if that’s the healthiest thing, but it’s the truth.

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

I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits – they may still be very distant – God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.

Compliment three people every day.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

You’re always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.

What really raises one’s indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

God knows what we are going through when we grieve, and He wants to assure us of His love and concern. He also wants us to turn to Him and bring our heartaches and burdens to Him.

If you want to reach the top, don’t run over others. Likely, the only way you’ll reach the top is to be carried there by others.

It occurred to me that at one point it was like I had two diseases – one was Alzheimer’s, and the other was knowing I had Alzheimer’s.

If I can get my dress on, my weight is under control.

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.

Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery.

A family looks for ways to support and inspire one another.

It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?

A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

If women were particular about men’s characters, they would never get married at all.

As a shame researcher, I know that the very best thing to do in the midst of a shame attack is totally counterintuitive: Practice courage and reach out!

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It’s a death trap.