Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ‚This is a misfortune‘ but ‚To bear this worthily is good fortune.‘

As apostles and prophets, we are concerned not only for our children and grandchildren but for yours as well – and for each of God’s children.

I read to my kid, but I can’t stand reading.

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

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

We tend to mistake music for the physical object.

When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said – and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded – ‚It’s like hair color. It’s nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It’s not a subject.‘ This was a very healthy attitude.

I learned to walk as a baby, and I haven’t had a lesson since.

People think I’m a celebrity. I’m not a celebrity.

I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.

Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

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.

India has over 20 percent of the kids born in the world. And they move around a lot.

Say not, ‚I have found the truth,‘ but rather, ‚I have found a truth.‘

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.

If I close my eyes and think of Hollywood, all I see is one big varicose vein.

I have never thought it necessary to patronize the American people.

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

My kids are the funniest two human beings there are.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.

On a bike, being just slightly above pedestrian and car eye level, one gets a perfect view of the goings-on in one’s own town.

I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

Memories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

I’ve been in the Los Angeles Children’s Chorus since I was 8.

And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I think, I don’t think anyone in my family would really feel I’d done them an injustice by saying that. We didn’t see many people. There were many books. It was as if I wanted to get away from home.

I was called ‚Dumbo,‘ like the elephant, as a child because I couldn’t understand things at school.

When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors. I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, ‚One of these days I’m going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.‘ That’s all I’ve ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother.

I would say the most satisfying thing actually is watching my three children each pick up on their own interests and work many more hours per week than most people that have jobs at trying to intelligently give away that money in fields that they particularly care about.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.

Life is a song to me.

There can be no better grounding for a lifetime as an author than to see humanity in all its various guises through the lens of the reporter for the town.

You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

I purposely don’t talk about money, because people are already skeptical about TV preachers. But I do say that I want you to be blessed. To me, prosperity is having health, having great children, having peace, good relationships. It’s not about the money.

A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer’s hand.

A person hears only what they understand.

From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That’s what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

I grew up reading science fiction.

The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.

Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there’s gonna come a time that you’re gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.

Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren’t. I don’t know if its the way you say it, or how you look.

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

People tried to change my concept of what music is. That music is work, but it’s not like that.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

It’s useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.

Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

I think there is a lot made out of age, and what age you feel.

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.

The ideas associated with the problems of the development of science, as far as I can see by looking around me, are not of the kind that everyone appreciates.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.