I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.

Never elated when someone’s oppressed, never dejected when another one’s blessed.

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

I like to have fun all the time, even if I’m working.

‚You are no saint,‘ says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. Sink or swim, I go to Him; other hope, I have none.

Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.

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

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.

The woman that deliberates is lost.

‚Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else’s type of thinking.

I sincerely believe… that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

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.

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.

Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

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.

The Public is merely a multiplied ‚me.‘

History is written by the victors.

It’s so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.

Some people feel affronted when something they thought to be true doesn’t happen. If that’s the case, then your sense of risk is much higher, and that leads to risk aversion. You need to be able to be comfortable in uncertainty.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

Most of our lives aren’t that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

I don’t want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.

I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.

My age is very insignificant to me. I don’t think about it, but the world does. The world likes young people in general.

How sweet it is to learn the Savior’s love when nobody else loves us! When friends flee, what a blessed thing it is to see that the Savior does not forsake us but still keeps us and holds us fast and clings to us and will not let us go!

What one fool can understand, another can.

Whenever a fellow tells me he’s bipartisan, I know he’s going to vote against me.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.

Fame doesn’t fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

There are definitely elements of experience and stuff that someone who’s my age wouldn’t have. But there are also things that I can do that other people wouldn’t necessarily be able to.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free – honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.