Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

I actually don’t want a throne at all, because I don’t view myself as a queen; I view myself as one of my fans.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field.

When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

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

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

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

A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.

People don’t realize that we, we meaning people in show business, have the same problems as everyone else. Money doesn’t change that. Fame doesn’t change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it’s just a different kind of problems.

There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.

The way up and the way down are one and the same.

Taylor Swift’s audience can listen to me, but so can the street kids. I want to touch it all.

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

I never get too high on my stardom or what I can do.

I’m 31 now. I think I’m beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

A saint is tolerant and is attentive to the pleadings of other human beings, not only to spoken messages but to unspoken messages as well.

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

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.

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.

The best leaders are readers of people. They have the intuitive ability to understand others by discerning how they feel and recognizing what they sense.

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

We need somebody who’s got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it’s like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it’s like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old – and that’s the criterion by which I’ll be selecting my judges.

People in Latin America… love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them.

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

Now that I’m a parent, I understand why my father was in a bad mood a lot.

Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us.

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

To be honest, I think kids have got a lot more going on than adults. They’ve got their heads screwed on a lot better.