I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.
Narendra ModiWe cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
Carl JungHonest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
Mahatma GandhiAn individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.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.
Aldous HuxleyThoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
Immanuel KantI am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen.
Anthony HopkinsYou can’t stop everything from happening. But we’ve gotten to a point where we’re certainly trying. If a car doesn’t have four hundred air bags in it, then it’s no good.
Clint EastwoodMany foxes grow gray but few grow good.
Benjamin FranklinI believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
Thomas JeffersonDeveloping nations want to become developed nations.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamBeing no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to endulge the professors of Christianity in the church, that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception.
George WashingtonThose that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
AristotleI never wanted to stay in one genre; I never wanted to be pigeon-holed or defined as the actor who only worked in one genre. I want to be able to work in all different genres. For me it’s fun, and that’s how I grow as an actor.
Dwayne JohnsonMistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.
Thomas SowellFor time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
John F. KennedyConfidentially, the type of male I find most enjoyable for a friend is one who has enough fire and assurance to speak up for his convictions.
Marilyn MonroePeople 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.
Mark ZuckerbergAs men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.
Blaise PascalPeople do not understand what a great revenue economy is.
Marcus Tullius CiceroYou have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don’t accept it, it’s their loss.
Alice WalkerWhy a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can’t make head nor tail out of it.
Groucho MarxYou must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiI mean, if you didn’t get it or if you didn’t feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.
Keanu ReevesI 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?
Ludwig van BeethovenMilk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerThe more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.
Dr. SeussHe who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
Immanuel KantMy father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a ‚race‘ life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.
Christopher HitchensI wrote my first song at 12 and remember someone asking, ‚What were you going through at 12 that you could write about?‘ I get what you’re saying, but 11, 12, 13 were the hardest years of my life. You learn everything. You learn how horrible things feel.
Billie EilishIf someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge? We shouldn’t marginalise people for this. They must be integrated into society.
Pope FrancisWhen you’re older you want to learn from other people.
Ray BradburyListen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply.
Stephen CoveyTalk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
Benjamin DisraeliObserve constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.
Marcus AureliusThe 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.
Kevin HartConsider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaI’m not looking to exclude people, I’m looking to include them.
Joel OsteenIt’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.
Joel OsteenEven the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.
Vincent Van GoghYou may be rich, but there is one thing you can’t afford – that is, if you are a good sort – you can’t afford to spend money on your own luxuries while there are people around you wanting the necessaries of life.
Robert Baden-PowellSee things from the boy’s point of view.
Robert Baden-PowellEven the most seemingly unpleasant situations – if you become aligned with it, something good will emerge from that.
Eckhart TolleHuman kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
Franklin D. RooseveltWe think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.
Mother TeresaThere are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
Mahatma GandhiMe is a common sense man. That mean when me explain things, me explain it in a very simple way; that mean if I explain it to a baby, the baby will understand too, you know.
Bob MarleySeek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don’t live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.
Albert SchweitzerI do have a lot of gays in my family now, but some will never come out.
Dolly PartonAbove all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.
Golda MeirThe need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.
Albert CamusI just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.
George W. BushPrevious generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you might well have seen the funerals of many of your siblings before you were very old.
Terry PratchettEach has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.
Virginia WoolfMartyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood – never.
Albert CamusAn investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Benjamin FranklinI 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.
Charles SpurgeonIt is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
Maya AngelouAt 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.
Albert CamusFor a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero