A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.

The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.

If you are not being bullied all I would say – cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well – is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there’s someone in your class that maybe doesn’t have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person.

I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.

Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.

I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I’ll have a window with a view.

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

I had a much better view with the halo than I expected.

Listen with your eyes for feelings.

It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don’t regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed.

Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

Everything is clearer when you’re in love.

When you are young, you cannot imagine being disabled. You imagine you would conquer it somehow. As I’ve got older, I can imagine it; I can see how life narrows in. I feel compassion for my mother now.

Which death is preferably to every other? ‚The unexpected‘.

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related.

Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.

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.

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

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

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music – these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.

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

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

I think it’s a very good thing to leave your country and look at it from afar.

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

The loss of life will be irreplaceable.

Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn’t get there.

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

On a spiritual level, it’s as though with my sighted eye I see what’s before me, and with my unsighted eye I see what’s hidden. It’s illuminated life more than darkened it.

The notion that we have even one single veteran living on the streets should be just considered a travesty to all of us.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

If everything isn’t black and white, I say, ‚Why the hell not?‘

Biography lends to death a new terror.

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

I try to look on all the great things God’s done, and not focus on the negative. It’s a perspective.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

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

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

What you see, but can’t see over is as good as infinite.

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

Anybody can be specific and obvious. That’s always been the easy way. It’s not that it’s so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it’s just that there’s nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

Life’s a bit like mountaineering – never look down.

Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer. You’re gay, you’re sick, you’re nervous or whatever.

I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to support me in the task to which I have now been dedicated with such solemnity.

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.