Don’t tell your problems to people: eighty percent don’t care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.

Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I’ve seen on some of the songs that I’ve written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in.

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

The Hindus are some of the nicest people you’ll ever meet.

It’s not morbid to talk about death. Most people don’t worry about death, they worry about a bad death.

I don’t want to get into it, but if you know someone, it doesn’t mean you agree with everything they say or they do.

People have been fed this diet of pabulum, rights, and impulsive freedom. There’s just an absolute starvation for the other side of the story.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow’s viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

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

Put it this way: If I asked, ‚How’s business?‘ and you say, ‚Boomin‘ or ‚Amazing,‘ I already know the answer.

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

From my standpoint, being an artist, I want to see what the new construction is between artist and audience.

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.

If you are not being bullied all I would say – cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well – is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there’s someone in your class that maybe doesn’t have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person.

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.

There is no room for military people, including our veterans, to see themselves as victims, even if so many of our countrymen are prone to relish that role.

If anything, we should feel sorry for the people who want us to feel bad about ourselves, because they are the ones struggling for approval. In middle school, bullies tortured other kids because they thought it would make people like them more.

My earliest books focus almost entirely on psychological tools to help readers employ effective commonsense approaches to problems. There are no references to God or a higher self in the first 15 or so years of my publishing history.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we’ve been thinking about a problem.

I’m seeing the world partially through the eyes of a kid. Not all the time. There’s no black and white to it. But sometimes I’m seeing it like I’m 4.

Such a chimerical idea as telegraphing vocal sounds would indeed, to most minds, seem scarcely feasible enough to spend time in working over. I believe, however, that it is feasible and that I have got the cue to the solution of the problem.

There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.

You know when you’re young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they’re trying to be old men and they have no idea what that’s like? It’s just that stupid the other way around.

I always have an optimistic view, no matter what it is.

We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time’s carcass.

Players now have a groin injury for months and months, and I often think they don’t really give a toss whether they’re playing or not because they’re getting paid anyway.

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

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Many people look at me and think they know me but they don’t at all. This is the real me. I am a humble person, a feeling person. A person who cares about others, who wants to help others.

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

In other words, don’t expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say ‚we have a problem, let’s go and get it‘.

Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.

When one’s expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have.

It undoubtedly feels nice when you are being appreciated and you get complimented by girls. Who doesn’t like that? Having said that, I don’t take it as any pressure.

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.

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

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.

The drawing teacher has this problem of communicating how to draw by osmosis and not by instruction, while the physics teacher has the problem of always teaching techniques, rather than the spirit, of how to go about solving physical problems.

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

I’m entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they’re thinking and who they are and who’s hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what’s the story, really?

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

I’m an idealist without illusions.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.