Do everything as in the eye of another.

If God dropped acid, would he see people?

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

If my mother knew I did this for a living, she’d kill me. She thinks I’m selling dope.

If… many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

The universe is wider than our views of it.

No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.

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

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.

It’s no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.

‚Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth – often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

You know when you’re young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they’re trying to be old men and they have no idea what that’s like? It’s just that stupid the other way around.

Don’t throw stones at your neighbors if your own windows are glass.

Mortality is very different when you’re 20 to when you’re 50.

I have to be in tune. All the time. I have to be in tune with my husband, where he is, how he’s feeling. I have to be in tune with where my family is.

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

I’m not somebody that thinks about destiny and fate, but I don’t walk away from it when something unfolds.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .

Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people’s progress.

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

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

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.

Well, Art is Art, isn’t it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

Considering their impact, you might expect mosquitoes to get more attention than they do. Sharks kill fewer than a dozen people every year, and in the U.S. they get a week dedicated to them on TV every year.

Little things affect little minds.

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

I actually don’t want a throne at all, because I don’t view myself as a queen; I view myself as one of my fans.

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

I think a number of the leaders are, whether you like it or not, in the hip-hop generation. And when they understand enough, they’ll do wonders. I count on them.

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Everything isn’t political.

Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise, you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.

God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it.

Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident.

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

If anything, we should feel sorry for the people who want us to feel bad about ourselves, because they are the ones struggling for approval. In middle school, bullies tortured other kids because they thought it would make people like them more.

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I’m a realist.

Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.