Some people are jerks, and some people aren’t.

Man seems to be the only animal whose food soils him, making necessary much washing and shield-like bibs and napkins. Moles living in the earth and eating slimy worms are yet as clean as seals or fishes, whose lives are one perpetual wash.

What nicer thing can you do for somebody than make them breakfast?

All the screen cowboys behaved like real gentlemen. They didn’t drink, they didn’t smoke. When they knocked the bad guy down, they always stood with their fists up, waiting for the heavy to get back on his feet. I decided I was going to drag the bad guy to his feet and keep hitting him.

In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person.

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

I make a lot of expressions constantly. I’m animated.

I have a slight bit of OCD, I think. I’m not walking around flipping light switches. But when I say I’m going to do something, I have to do it.

The poorest people are the sweetest people.

I tend to believe that audiences are relatively well-balanced people.

At home I am a nice guy: but I don’t want the world to know. Humble people, I’ve found, don’t get very far.

I looked the people of Louisiana in the eye and told them exactly what I thought in terms that normal people use.

Acting is a question of absorbing other people’s personalities and adding some of your own experience.

I’m not the kind of cat that’s going to cut off an ear if I can’t do something.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.

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

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

I’d love to date somebody cool, fun, funny.

I can be a cruel person.

When I was a kid, I never did funny things to get attention. I was never a funny person. I was never, like, ‚Oh, wow. I could say this some day on stage.‘

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

I’m more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive.

Why does your mind conform? Have you ever asked? Are you aware that you are conforming to a pattern? It doesn’t matter what that pattern is, whether you have established a pattern for yourself or it has been established for you.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one – keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

A man’s character is his fate.

We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government.

I do a little thing about the way people shake the sweetener packet. You know, like they’re all excited. I want to get all the granules down to one end. I love all these rituals.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I’ve got a lot of that in me as well.

I don’t do any vulgar movements.

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

Please think of me like an endangered species and just observe me quietly from far away. If you try to talk to me or touch me casually, I may get intimidated and bite you. So please be careful.

People have me pinned as a shark or a predator in some way, and in no way am I that. I wouldn’t want to hurt anyone. I want to defend people. I want to help people.

I’ve found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.

My mother always wanted to give back.

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.

Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.

Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

I was so rude when I was a little girl.

The sun doesn’t always shine in West Virginia, but the people do.

Everyone has the potential to become an encourager. You don’t have to be rich. You don’t have to be a genius. You don’t have to have it all together. All you have to do is care about people and initiate.

The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.

Real living is living for others.

In real life, I’m a really smiley person. I smile when I talk and I laugh.

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

The oppression of any people for opinion’s sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves, you know, to put other people down, or make fun of them, or maybe make mockery of their work and that doesn’t make me feel good at all.