A true man hates no one.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

God is a great God! I want to encourage you to expect great things from Him.

You can write a song about being in love with someone, but you don’t have to be in love with anyone.

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

If you’re serious, you really understand that it’s important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you’re the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you’re funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

Here in America, we don’t give in to our fears. We don’t build up walls to keep people out.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.

When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don’t know you think.

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.

I don’t want enemies. I want friends, and I want them in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and loving whoever they want to.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

They died hard, those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

‚Harry Potter‘ gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.

There’s no happier person than a truly thankful, content person.

If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours.

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

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.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: ‚This is my country.‘

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

Speak low, if you speak love.

I think what’s important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

As we know, while our species remains alive, everybody has the sacred duty to be optimistic. Ethically, any other behaviour wouldn’t be admissible.

You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

In each soul, God loves and partly saves the whole world which that soul sums up in an incommunicable and particular way.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

I believe many people feel like God is mad at them. One day I put a post on Facebook that said, ‚God is not mad at you.‘ Within a few hours, we literally had thousands of positive responses from people saying things like, ‚That is exactly what I needed to hear today.‘ Obviously, this is a message we need to hear.

Fires can’t be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing – hopefully.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can’t get bitter, we can’t get jaded.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It’s the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

My mother told me, ‚Son, nobody else but God knows.‘ And that’s what I’m about – reaching out to the people, crying with them, giving them hope. Visiting the hospital, visiting the kids with cancer, visiting the adults, and stuff like that. That’s what I do.

I still think I am the greatest.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

You can’t stop everything from happening. But we’ve gotten to a point where we’re certainly trying. If a car doesn’t have four hundred air bags in it, then it’s no good.

I love to play. And fortunately, I don’t know a lot of musicians that suck. I know a bunch of really good ones, and they’re always up for playing.

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

I don’t feel too much pressure. I only see an opportunity.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime.

Never be ashamed! There’s some who’ll hold it against you, but they’re not worth bothering with.