See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

It’s presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels.

In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

How much better it would be if all could be more aware of God’s providence and love and express that gratitude to Him.

If I’m in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person’s side of the case at least as well as they could. One has to be able to say that in any well-conducted argument.

As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.

God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right person, or suddenly your health improves, or suddenly you’re able to pay off your house. That’s God shifting things in your favor.

We see the world not as it is, but as we are.

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories – and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.

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.

I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will.

As you get older, time speeds up but life slows down.

I really have no interest in myself.

I try to live what I teach. A lot of things come against us in life, but we should try to find something to be grateful for, and see each day as a gift.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

Every loss of life is terrible.

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

One thing I just want to say to the military families – while you might not wear a uniform, I know – we all know, the nation knows – that you serve and sacrifice right alongside of your loved ones. And we are so grateful and proud of all of you for your service to this nation.

I’m sorry, it’s true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We’re born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It’s been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much – if at all.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

Some people take defeat and losses a certain way. You see how some fighters take losses.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America’s really large shadow and that’s not all that bad.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

We all self-conscious. I’m just the first to admit it.

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.

We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates – which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

The funny thing is that I feel close to all my characters. Deep, deep inside them all.

What a wee little part of a person’s life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

I have trouble imagining what I could do that’s beyond the practicality of what I can do.

We all want to win more, but it’s all about being blessed and embracing your blessings. We have life.

There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.

I will be unhappy if I know I have not accomplished something I should have done that was possible.

I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.

When you’re 40, you can’t ride the fence anymore. You gotta make definite decisions about your life.

I’ve never been a jealous person, and I’ve never felt built up by someone else’s failure – that’s a cheap thrill.

I am just happy to be part of the Nike family.

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

My message isn’t perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child’s eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

There are phases in life which surface at times, and it makes you understand that despite you working hard, everything what you are doing is probably not enough. That’s when you need to look around, and beyond.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I’m praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I’m grateful that I’m heard.

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Learning to live for others isn’t something that just comes naturally to anybody. You have to train yourself to do it.