Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That’s what’s important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.

Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn’t mean anything else.

Here in the West, people often don’t like listening to their leaders, even if they are right.

Catering to bad feelings feeds and empowers them.

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

There is always another way to say the same thing that doesn’t look at all like the way you said it before. I don’t know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature.

It’s so much easier to like people, and to let people in, to trust them until they prove that you should do otherwise. The alternative is being an iceberg.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

When you’re around the kids, you feel like you act the most grown up just because you’re supposed to lead. I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight… the truly wise person is colorblind.

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

I don’t know what’s better gettin‘ laid or gettin‘ paid.

One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what’s really happening to me, even if it’s a tough pill to swallow for people around me… I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.

We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

I’ll tell you one thing, since I’m married, single people look absolutely ridiculous to me.

The question isn’t, ‚What do we want to know about people?‘, It’s, ‚What do people want to tell about themselves?‘

Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you’ve got.

I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman’s skillet and the man’s ax-helve.

Women don’t try to use me.

I do not, in fact, use many puns. Certainly there are far fewer than people believe. But I suspect the ones I do occasionally use tend to hang around in people’s memories for a while.

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

I believe that when you think of the negative, and you get up discouraged – ‚There’s nothing good in my future‘ – I really believe it almost ties the hands of God. God works where there’s an attitude of faith. I believe faith is all about hope.

The more I grow in popularity, the lonelier it gets. Because you don’t really know me. You just know this part of me. You fell in love with that. But it’s way more intricate than what meets the surface.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.

When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it’s like giving them emotional oxygen.

If I have the chance to say something, I will say it – but that doesn’t obligate me to always say something, or to shed light on every problem, as if I were a lawmaker.

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation’s promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.

Don’t judge other people. For example, if you want God’s anointing to be on you for parenting, you need to be careful not to criticize other parents.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

I can imagine it’s hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn’t know.

Just talk to me as a father – not what the Constitution says. What do you feel?

The public doesn’t mind people living together without being married, providing they don’t overdo it.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or ‚our‘ country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.

Love is trembling happiness.

What I love best in life is new starts.

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

Familiarity breeds contempt – and children.

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood – never.

So there’s no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn’t necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn’t necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame.

Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone’s singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person.

There’s always going to be people who don’t understand or accept the united science, and I will just ignore them, as I’m only acting and communicating on the science.

There’s only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I’ll get married again.

Nobody’s ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy.

The way people look at me these days – that’s the same way I looked at President Obama before I met him. We tend to forget that people who’ve attained a certain position are human.

True friends stab you in the front.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.