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

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

Nothing on this earth is standing still. It’s either growing or it’s dying. No matter if it’s a tree or a human being.

I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

Every loss of life is terrible.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was ‚satisfactory,‘ I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently?

They need help, and we have helped, and we are here to help. And we are helping, and we’re going to continue to help.

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

I actually feel like women in my position, when we have all at our disposal to help us, shouldn’t complain when we consider all of the people who are really struggling and don’t have the means or support. Many people are single, raising children. That’s hard.

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

God’s first line of defense – and offense – for every situation is prayer.

Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world. This is the most beautiful quality in a revolutionary.

Everything is subject to change except God Himself.

Things do not change; we change.

Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.

It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.

It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don’t think anybody has held this job who hasn’t felt personally responsible for those being killed.

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you – gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

My musical taste and image is going to change naturally. It’s not forced; I do what comes natural to me. Sometimes, I like to be dark… other times, I like to be really light and ladylike.

A saint is tolerant and is attentive to the pleadings of other human beings, not only to spoken messages but to unspoken messages as well.

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

When your dream is bigger than you are, you only have two choices: give up or get help.

What’s dangerous is not to evolve.

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What’s the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.

Everyone needs a coach. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.

It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.

I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem – and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

I felt I had to solve everyone’s problems.

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

You’ve got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you’ve got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.

My earliest books focus almost entirely on psychological tools to help readers employ effective commonsense approaches to problems. There are no references to God or a higher self in the first 15 or so years of my publishing history.

I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place.

I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I’m a human being, too. And I’m on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles.

If I’ve got a problem with one of my clients that needs to get solved, guess what I’m going to do? I’m going to call them up, and I’m going to say, ‚Hey, here’s what’s going on. This is the situation. This thing went sideways. I didn’t expect it. Now it’s going to take me some more time to get you what you need.‘ But I’m going to do that upfront.

I used to worry about every little thing, trying to figure out every problem. Well, I realize now how foolish that was. I was no more in control of my life than the man on the moon.

When you truly accept that those children in some far off place in the global village have the same value as you in God’s eyes or even in just your eyes, then your life is forever changed; you see something that you can’t un-see.

You cannot share your life with a dog, as I had done in Bournemouth, or a cat, and not know perfectly well that animals have personalities and minds and feelings.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

I rely on other people every day of my life.

Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don’t do any good, but they don’t necessarily do any harm. It’s touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I’ve got my just desserts.

When you’re in prison, you want to know that you were thought about.

The fame isn’t important to me. It’s a blessing to have. Having so many people that support me, that love me and listen to my music, is beautiful.

I want to support other women because of the opportunities I’ve had – and I’ve had a lot of opportunities. What I try as a female director is to do the best job I can and, in the meantime, bring attention to as many other female directors and writers as I can.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.

Do not be afraid to ask for help. Nobody gets through college on their own.

In order to have friends, you must first be one.

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.