I think if you follow anyone home, whether they live in Houston or London, and you sit at their dinner table and talk to them about their mother who has cancer or their child who is struggling in school, and their fears about watching their lives go by, I think we’re all the same.

What I have in common with the character in ‚Truman‘ is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can’t knock it.

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

Positional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone.

When you learn about the teaching and the practice of another tradition, you always have a chance to understand your own teaching and practice.

That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity’s small change in general society.

My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.

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

We do not judge the people we love.

Maleficent has suffered abuse in the past, and there’s a reason why she is now as furious as she is. And I think that children who have been outcast and abused in any way will relate to her. There’s a beautiful side to her; she’s not just a dark person. She has all these facets. And that is interesting.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.

I am for people. I can’t help it.

We as women, we have to understand that we know more, just even instinctively, than we think we do.

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

Do everything as in the eye of another.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

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.

I often advocate that we look at many sides of an issue, walk in someone else’s shoes, and identify and reject false choices.

I try to speak in a way that people can understand.

It’s the way I study – to understand something by trying to work it out or, in other words, to understand something by creating it. Not creating it one hundred percent, of course; but taking a hint as to which direction to go but not remembering the details. These you work out for yourself.

So there’s no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn’t necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn’t necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame.

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

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

A good thing to remember is somebody’s got it a lot worse than we do.

Of what use is a philosopher who doesn’t hurt anybody’s feelings?

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

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Actors are one family over the entire world.

It’s not about changing people; it’s sometimes about changing a situation. How can we build an even better situation for them?

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

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

If you’re in business or politics, you need to have an intense understanding of what’s going on around you.

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

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

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.

There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.

The American people have not become heartless.

To add value to others, one must first value others.

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

People have me pinned as a shark or a predator in some way, and in no way am I that. I wouldn’t want to hurt anyone. I want to defend people. I want to help people.

It’s very hard for our parents who see us enter a world that they can’t imagine.

It’s hard to wrap my head around the fact that there are people who can’t or won’t see what Black Lives Matter is trying to accomplish.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

I can’t read the newspaper without crying. I’m easily affected by horrible events, you see.

Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.

Hip-hop is ever changing but you’ll always have the pack. And you’ll always have those people who are separated from the pack.

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

I’m not claiming divinity. I’ve never claimed purity of soul. I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can… But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

In hip-hop, there’s not a lot of love. There’s not a lot of love being spread. It’s always like ‚I’m stuntin‘ on you raps, or I’m better than you raps.‘ It’s not a lot of ‚Yo man, I idolize you raps.‘

I think ‚Dirty Harry‘ was probably sensitive toward the victims of violent crime.

Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.