For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

Stay humble and be concerned for the less fortunate.

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

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

I am an over-achiever, and I want to be known for the good things in my life.

A master performer like Bill Clinton never lost sight of the fact that as president he had to project confidence and power, but if he was speaking to a group of autoworkers he would adjust his accent and his words to fit the audience, and do the same for a group of executives.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

It’s in the difficult times that we’re growing and you can’t just rebuke everything hard. We’ve got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

From caring comes courage.

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

You have to just accept your body. You may not love it all the way, but you just have to be comfortable with it, comfortable with knowing that that’s your body.

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I’ll rise.

There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

The earth laughs in flowers.

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it… Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.

I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

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

Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

I had to prove you could be a new kind of black man. I had to show the world.

There’s a lack of people in power that are motivated by the idea of helping people.

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

You’ll see it when you believe it.

Even with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at almost anything for five minutes, you will be stunned by how marvelous life is and how incredibly lucky we are to have it.

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.

She is a peacock in everything but beauty.

When we’re looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

Whatever is well said by another, is mine.

Writing is like anything else – the more you do it, the better you get at it, the easier it comes, and the less concerned you’ll be about what’s going to happen to it, where it’s going, what it sounds like, whether it’s right.

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that’s my religion.

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.

A shady business never yields a sunny life.

Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.

I am confident I will set foot again in Tibet in my lifetime.

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

All of these young people have some kind of potential in them. And if we don’t invest in them as a nation, regardless of where they come from or what color they are, if we don’t invest in them, we lose.

The battle for women’s rights has been largely won.

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally.

Carry the battle to them. Don’t let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don’t ever apologize for anything.

It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

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

We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

Horses make a landscape look beautiful.

He that does good to another does good also to himself.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.

If I can be a leader, I will.

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight.