Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Happy the people whose annals are vacant.

Man’s nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

Even if my songs are quite sad or quite dark, I don’t want my songs to make people sad. It’s very important for me that all my songs have some kind of hope or light.

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.

When one’s expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.

Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

Hope is not a resting place but a starting point – a cactus, not a cushion.

When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.

Music comes to me more readily than words.

I didn’t have nothin‘ going for me… school, home… until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

True happiness is… to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

The happiest people I know as a nation are the Burmese; their brightness and cheeriness are proverbial. Kindness to animals is one of their greatest ‚weaknesses‘; no Burmese will kill an animal, even if it is to put it out of pain.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.

I want to make something that is breathtaking. Of course, you can’t make something that is always breathtaking, or you would never be able to breathe. You would collapse.

If life gives you limes, make margaritas.

I suppose for me as an artist it wasn’t always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go.

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

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.

These are the soul’s changes. I don’t believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

It’s no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.

I think my biggest musical hero growing up was probably Ian MacKaye. He set a great example for all of us local musicians. Still, to this day, I see him as the best example of a right-on musician.

The kindness that’s been shown to me, by doctors as well as my family and my friends, it’s really saved my life.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Encouragement to all women is – let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let’s see if we can’t prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

My evidence that I am saved does not lie in the fact that I preach, or that I do this or that. All my hope lies in this: that Jesus Christ came to save sinners. I am a sinner, I trust Him, then He came to save me, and I am saved.

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

The notion that we have even one single veteran living on the streets should be just considered a travesty to all of us.

Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent, they are making America more secure.

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

In cricket, my superhero is Sachin Tendulkar. He has always been my hero and will continue to remain so. Apart from him and outside cricket, my mother has remained my inspiration. Whatever difficult time I had faced, she was always there for me. She has given me all the strength. She maintained her composure and supported me in tough times.

My father wasn’t around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, ‚Why me? Why don’t I have a father? Why isn’t he around? Why did he leave my mother?‘ But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, ‚I don’t know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?‘

Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?

A faithful woman can become a devoted daughter of God – more concerned with being righteous than with being selfish, more anxious to exercise compassion than to exercise dominion, more committed to integrity than to notoriety. And she knows of her own infinite worth.

If there’s not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.

The fact is that since you’re a divine creation who originated in the world of Spirit, you have exactly the right amount of smarts to accomplish all that you need and want to do while you’re here on earth. It’s all perfect… and so are you!

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

Social Security is based on a principle. It’s based on the principle that you care about other people. You care whether the widow across town, a disabled widow, is going to be able to have food to eat.

The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

Not having hope is not an excuse for not doing something.

I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all.

I love reading people. I really enjoy watching, observing, and being able to figure out a person, the reason they wore that dress, the reason they smell the way they do.