We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

Kids who have an understanding of how and why their feelings are what they are are much more likely to talk to us about what’s happening, and they have better skills to work it out.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you’re crazy.

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

All generalizations are false, including this one.

I was very blessed to have family and friends, but particularly family, who told me I was not only all right, I was just right, so I believe that my brain is a good one, and it’s lasting me very well.

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

The way I talk is bizarre.

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us.

I’m guarded; I don’t talk much.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

When you go on your Twitter or look down your Timeline and it’s all great positivity – I love that. But at the same time, it can really divert you from what your purpose is or what you’re trying to do. And I’ve seen artists get caught up in that.

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say ‚infinitely‘ when you mean ‚very‘; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

I am the most helpful and open up doors for everyone and I like to share.

Sometimes I wish my first word was ‚quote,‘ so that on my death bed, my last words could be ‚end quote.‘

I’m a people pleaser. I hold a lot of things in. I’m always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don’t rage; I usually don’t curse.

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

I have an answering machine in my car. It says, I’m home now. But leave a message and I’ll call when I’m out.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

I don’t do Shakespeare. I don’t talk in that kind of broken English.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

I do think that we’re gonna move towards this world where eventually you’ll be able to capture a whole experience that you’re in and be able to send that to someone.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

Life is too short not to celebrate nice moments!

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

All my adult life people have been helping me.

Money doesn’t talk, it swears.

With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

Do the best you can, and don’t take life too serious.

At the end of the day, I understand that life has road blocks, and life is like school – you’ll be tested; we gotta pass it.

If I have something to say, I want it to be meaningful.

All of our problems start in our minds.

Such a chimerical idea as telegraphing vocal sounds would indeed, to most minds, seem scarcely feasible enough to spend time in working over. I believe, however, that it is feasible and that I have got the cue to the solution of the problem.

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

It is hardly an exaggeration to say that oral teachers and sign teachers found it difficult to sit down in the same room without quarreling, and there was intolerance upon both sides. To say ‚oral method‘ to a sign teacher was like waving a red flag in the face of a bull, and to say ‚sign language‘ to an oralist aroused the deepest resentment.

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, ‚Did you sleep good?‘ I said ‚No, I made a few mistakes.‘

Pick the day. Enjoy it – to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come… The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present – and I don’t want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn’t mean anything else.

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

If we’re going to bring out the best in people, we, too, need to sow seeds of encouragement.

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.