I don’t have a problem with Hulk Hogan. People say things and do things, and who am I to judge?

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures – be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

Once you’ve grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you’ve inherited, you don’t even notice it any longer.

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

I don’t have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I’m happier now than before I developed the condition.

If it’s stress of things that we cannot control, what you have to do is you mitigate that stress as much as possible. You’ve planned, you’ve trained, you’ve done everything you can in your power to mitigate the stress that’s facing you. And then after that, there’s nothing you can do. So, you have to let that one go.

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.

Gays are some of the nicest, kindest, most loving people in the world.

Overall there’s going to be things I’m not great at.

I wish every American had an opportunity to sit down, to go to a base, to meet with families, to meet with service members, to sit down with our veterans – because we would think differently about our challenges as individuals.

What air is to the body, to feel understood is to the heart.

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.

The best leaders understand the motivations of their team members and know their people – their lives and their families. But a leader must never grow so close to subordinates that one member of the team becomes more important than another, or more important than the mission itself.

Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.

I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.

If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.

Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.

Me and my dad are friends. We’re cool. I’ll never be disappointed again, because I don’t expect anything anymore from him. I just let him exist, and that’s how we get along.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that’s going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.

A person hears only what they understand.

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

I think everyone should be with who they love.

Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else’s religion, but he’ll accept his gold.

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.

Science is nothing but perception.

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

Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.

I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.

If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

It’s not that I’m afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story.

Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.

The greatest service that can be offered to children who show personality traits or inclinations that might not be understood by the adults around them is to allow them to express their own unique humanity.

Death is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condition of a metamorphosis.

The less you know, the more you believe.

To understand the power of the priesthood, we must know its limitations.

I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later – yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?

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.

The second time around, I’ll understand that, as a husband, my wife doesn’t care about my opinions. I just need to tell her the things that will continue to help me stack the brownie points.

A child wants things to be a certain way. When you get to be an adult, you just understand that some people are good, some are not, and you can’t be naive.

‚Thank you‘ is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

For so many people, television and movies may be the only way they understand people who aren’t like them.

I mean, if you didn’t get it or if you didn’t feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.

Glam really did plant seeds for a new identity. I think a lot of kids needed that – that sense of reinvention. Kids learned that however crazy you may think it is, there is a place for what you want to do and who you want to be.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.