A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

I’m very sensitive. I remember, as a kid at school, if someone in the classroom was sad or angry, it could have a great impact on me.

We see the world not as it is, but as we are.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

As you get older, time speeds up but life slows down.

While there’s life, there’s hope.

What I remember as a child is that other kids didn’t care about suffering. I always did.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

I don’t go down the road of condemning.

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

When I was a boy we didn’t wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner.

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.

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.

You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I want, eat and drink whatever I want. As long as I just babble at the camera, other people will pay for it. It’s a gift.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

You can’t be happy by doing something groovy.

Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

I always joke that my kids‘ favorite holiday is Father’s Day. They love the way I celebrate the occasion by writing each of them a thank-you letter and a generous check. It’s my way of letting them know how much I appreciate the great pleasure and privilege of being their dad.

I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

I feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

It’s a funny old world.

Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: With mindfulness, you can see that she is unhappy, that she is suffering. You can see her wrong perceptions. You can see that she is not beautiful when she says things that are unkind.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

Why would anyone steal a shopping cart? It’s like stealing a two-year-old.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we’re going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.

Sometimes, if you begin to sing in a halfhearted mood, you can sing yourself up the ladder. Singing will often make the heart rise.

Every summer’s mine.

Thanks to my fans that have been with me from the beginning, I was able to sell out arenas on my own.

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

I’ve always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

Saints can be happy under every circumstance.

Whenever you’re going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.

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

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

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

If I went back to my 20-year-old self, what I would tell my 20-year-old self is, ‚You don’t know anything.‘ Because everyone, when they’re young, they think they know what’s going on in the world, and you don’t.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

You have to believe in your process. You have to believe in the things that you are doing to help the team win. I think you have to take the good with the bad.

I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.