There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone… Bad food is fake food… food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people’s ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives.

I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.

Logically, harmony must come from the heart… Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.

It’s very inexpensive to give a compliment.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

Wouldn’t it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer. You’re gay, you’re sick, you’re nervous or whatever.

I accept chaos, I’m not sure whether it accepts me.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone – a memory.

People have so much going on in their heads. I’m like, If you could write a song, you’d feel so much better!

Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

Lot of players lose hope because of lack of motivation.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there’s time, the Bastard Time.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

Anything I’ve ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.

Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

I am an over-achiever, and I want to be known for the good things in my life.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!

I’m afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same.

We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

No matter how bad any situation, cynicism has no positive impact. Watching the news, you might notice that cynicism and victimhood often seem to go hand-in-hand, but not for veterans.

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the Enemy can be our own thoughts.

The only thing I’m afraid of is bees. I don’t like bees. I’m allergic to them.

My mother told me, ‚Son, nobody else but God knows.‘ And that’s what I’m about – reaching out to the people, crying with them, giving them hope. Visiting the hospital, visiting the kids with cancer, visiting the adults, and stuff like that. That’s what I do.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than it takes to see the bad.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet’s heart when caught and tangled in a woman’s body?

Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.