I’m actually starting to like more and more people who have convictions that are unpopular.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

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

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

Nothing endures but change.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

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.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

I don’t think that much about my relationship with my mother and what it did to me. I sometimes feel terrible regret about her, what her life must have been like. Often, when I’m enjoying something, I think of how meager her rewards were and how much courage, in a way, she needed to go on living.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

Developing nations want to become developed nations.

Children always turn to the light.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

If your mom cries a lot, you probably cry a lot. It’s what you learn.

I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

We should understand the source of our authority and something of the keys that control its power.

Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

If someone decides they’re not going to be happy, it’s not your problem. You don’t have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.

If… many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.

Occasionally I’ve seen children become heavy-handed and insensitive when dealing with their aging parents, and it only caused resentment and hard feelings.

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

I’ve been called a moron since I was about four. My father called me a moron. My grandfather said I was a moron. And a lot of times when I’m driving, I hear I’m a moron. I like being a moron.

I was never focused on me, me, me all the time. I was always focused on somebody else.

We need to show mercy. I mean, because as much mercy as you show people, that’s the mercy you’re going to be receiving.

We’re a blip in the existence of the universe, and we’re constantly trying to pull each other down. Not doing things to help each other.

We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

I didn’t want to play it boring and safe. I also didn’t want to innovate too much. Second albums, man, they’re even scarier than first ones.

God tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone’s sexual preferences are or if they’re black, brown or purple.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.

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.

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

‚Suffering should not make us bitter people,‘ my mother once said, ‚it should make us better comforters.‘ Young people need to hear this from those who have walked before them, because someday they’ll be walking those same steps, but there may not be anyone following behind.

Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

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

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.