Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

People who add value to others do so intentionally. I say that because to add value, leaders must give of themselves, and that rarely occurs by accident.

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn’t know it then.

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.

Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

Kids who have an understanding of how and why their feelings are what they are are much more likely to talk to us about what’s happening, and they have better skills to work it out.

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.

I wasn’t born a natural entrepreneur. I had to be trained.

I searched for years I found no love. I’m sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.

So many people live with anger and unforgiveness, and many of them are Christians.

A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.

I exaggerate when I’m angry, but I’ve never gone around telling people things that aren’t true about me.

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

I’m a songwriter. Everything affects me.

I hate smiling. It makes me feel weak and powerless and small. I’ve always been like that; I don’t smile in any pictures.

Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience, and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level. That’s the way the system works. And since we know that the system will not change the rules, we are going to have to change the system.

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

It is necessary to fall in love… if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.

The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.

When I was a teenager, I thought how great it would be if only I could write novels in English. I had the feeling that I would be able to express my emotions so much more directly than if I wrote in Japanese.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

Modesty is the color of virtue.

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

These days there is a lot of poverty in the world, and that’s a scandal when we have so many riches and resources to give to everyone. We all have to think about how we can become a little poorer.

A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I’m writing about New York.

Begin with the end in mind.

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

It’s difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn’t available.

I listen to music that is of our time and I just get angry.

What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.

This above all, to refuse to be a victim.

Although God loves us unconditionally, He does get angry at sin, wickedness and evil. But He is not an angry God. God hates sin, but He loves sinners! He will never approve of sin in your life, but He always loves you and wants to work with you to make progress in living a holy life in Christ.

Find people who will make you better.

On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.

When the rich wage war, it’s the poor who die.

Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off – we do not have to stand for this.

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.

If you sit there and have that mentality of ‚triple down on what you’re good at,‘ you’re never going to grow. You’re always going to stay the same.

If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.

There are no rules when it comes to love.

I don’t know, I feel desperate when I sing. And I look desperate – it feels like I’m singing for my life, which makes me twitch, if that makes sense.

Of course I get hurt.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

It’s okay to eat fish because they don’t have any feelings.

Your emotions are very unstable and should never be the foundation for direction in your life.

Your life must be a progression towards ownership – first mentally of your independence, and then physically of your work, owning what you produce.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn’t done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier.

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.