Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

We need to, you know, restore people. We need to show mercy. I mean, because as much mercy as you show people, that’s the mercy you’re going to be receiving.

Whatever is well said by another, is mine.

When you have kids, you see life through different eyes. You feel love more deeply and are maybe a little more compassionate. It’s inevitable that that would make its way into your songwriting.

The fact is that when you do something from your heart, you leave a heart print.

Confidence is always a good thing to have going into the weekend. Especially where it’s quite difficult to put the lap together.

I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all.

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

Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.

That’s the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me.

You know that your happiness and suffering depend on the happiness and suffering of others. That insight helps you not to do wrong things that will bring suffering to yourself and to other people.

You always have to remember that if you say something negative, it’s going to come back to haunt you.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

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.

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

Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

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.

People in tough times – it doesn’t mean they don’t have a great attitude.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

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

The thing I always say to people is this: ‚If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.‘

When the people become involved in their government, government becomes more accountable, and our society is stronger, more compassionate, and better prepared for the challenges of the future.

Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

He who is brave is free.

Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.

I think whether you’re having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.

It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves, you know, to put other people down, or make fun of them, or maybe make mockery of their work and that doesn’t make me feel good at all.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.

I don’t know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

‚They‘ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‚they.‘ You might have a personal ‚they.‘ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‚they.‘

I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

Man is not made for defeat.

I don’t go down the road of condemning.

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

Anyone who is practicing understanding and compassion can exemplify true power. Anyone can be a Buddha.

You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.

Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

I can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

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

I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I’m on course, and I’m doing what God wants me to do. I’m real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.

Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.

I liked his ability to deal with a lot of the negativity that surrounded him. Even though he was in a world that he didn’t want to be in, he still saw the bigger picture.

Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

I think I have the nicest fans in the world, and I quite like being surrounded by people if we’re all feeling the same emotion in the same room.

I don’t like to beat people down. They need to be lifted up.

I need music. It’s like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what’s going on – bad games, press, whatever!

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

I don’t want to make money; I want to make a difference.