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

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.

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

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

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

I don’t see that my majority opinions are going to be undone.

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won’t presume to probe into the faults of others.

I’ve read the last page of the Bible. It’s all going to turn out all right.

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

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.

One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Applause is a receipt, not a bill.

The people of Northern Ireland have sorted out my whole life.

It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.

Apple’s market share is bigger than BMW’s or Mercedes’s or Porsche’s in the automotive market. What’s wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

I’m a woman, and anytime you tell a woman that she looks nice, it’s not going to upset her.

Some people take defeat and losses a certain way. You see how some fighters take losses.

When I look back on my life as a whole, it is impossible for me not to feel blessed.

Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.

You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, ‚Oh God, I’ve got to do this today.‘

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

There will be days when I walk in an arena and people will cheer and then there might be days when I walk in an arena and people might boo, but it all sounds the same to me because it’s all just noise that lets me know that I’m relevant.

Don’t be afraid to see what you see.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned… a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

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.

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.

Never complain. Never explain.

Encouragement to others is something everyone can give. Somebody needs what you have to give. It may not be your money; it may be your time. It may be your listening ear. It may be your arms to encourage. It may be your smile to uplift. Who knows?

You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

I never needed much, and I never thought I’d get more than what I had. A trip to Burger King was the biggest thing in the world to me. Heaven.

We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.

So many people are looking at what’s wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what’s right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

A good thing to remember is somebody’s got it a lot worse than we do.

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.

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.

Age doesn’t bother me. So many of my heroes were older guys. It’s the lack of years left that weighs far heavier on me than the age that I am.

Things ain’t what they used to be and never were.

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

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

The older I get, the better I understand that every day is a gift.

I didn’t want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that’s a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I’m proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

I see the world in black and white, and I don’t like compromising.

What I have in common with the character in ‚Truman‘ is this incredible need to please people. 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.

The good part about youngsters is that they are so fearless. You want to be like them.

Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.