See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

My father wasn’t around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, ‚Why me? Why don’t I have a father? Why isn’t he around? Why did he leave my mother?‘ But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, ‚I don’t know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?‘

I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that sometimes I was fooling somebody; I don’t know who or what, maybe myself.

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

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.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one – keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

Money can’t buy life.

While victimhood in America is exalted, I don’t think our veterans should join those ranks.

Many religious confessions share common values. They teach that we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us.

A man’s manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.

The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren’t in a very good mood.

If you want what you’re saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody’s life. Your own, first.

At first when I heard about climate change, I was a climate denier. I didn’t think it was happening. Because if there really was an existential crisis like that, that would threaten our civilisation, we wouldn’t be focusing on anything else. That would be our first priority. So I didn’t understand how that added up.

When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.

A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we’re children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they’re scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it’s pretty much in the eye of the beholder.

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

The more you observe politics, the more you’ve got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

Most of our lives aren’t that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.

I’m entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they’re thinking and who they are and who’s hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what’s the story, really?

So let’s be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can’t make anybody believe that he has it.

It would be an egregious mistake to ever refer to me in the same breath as most of the people I write about.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

Everybody has done something that we wish we didn’t say or do and wish we could take it back.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living?

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.

Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

Of course there are moments that you wonder how long you should be doing it because there are other aspects which are not nice, of this lifestyle. But I just love winning.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

There is always something infinitely mean about other people’s tragedies.

I’ve never been a jealous person, and I’ve never felt built up by someone else’s failure – that’s a cheap thrill.

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

I don’t think it’s possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

We need to, you know, restore people. We need to show mercy. I mean, because as much mercy as you show people, that’s the mercy you’re going to be receiving.

A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.

Nobody knows me.

Fame doesn’t fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.

Lots of songs aren’t even from my experiences, but they’re about accepting… the dark things about yourself.

Occasionally I’ve seen children become heavy-handed and insensitive when dealing with their aging parents, and it only caused resentment and hard feelings.

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

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

If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

I’m grateful for always this moment, the now, no matter what form it takes.

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.