What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What’s the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane… There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

Chastity – the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That’s what I strive to do, that’s what I pray to do every day.

The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

The other day the President said, I know you’ve had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.

He who has felt his own ruin will not imagine the case of any to be hopeless; nor will he think them too fallen to be worthy his regard.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

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.

Every time I see documentaries or infomercials about little kids with cancer, I just freak out. It affects me on the highest emotional level… Anytime I think about it, it makes me sadder than anything I can think of.

What I remember as a child is that other kids didn’t care about suffering. I always did.

A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow’s viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

It’s very strange to go to cities like London and New York. People walk so quickly, they seem to be in a hurry all the time. And you don’t say ‚Hi‘ to everyone you meet, and you don’t smile to everyone you meet, because there’s just so many. Which is also very strange.

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

Whenever you’re going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.

I have a heart of gold, but I’m really a marshmallow in my heart.

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt. And, of course, there are Christian monks and nuns who already use Buddhist methods in order to develop their devotion, compassion, and ability to forgive.

If you are a parent, you have probably already realized that your children are always watching what you do. And just as children watch their parents and emulate their behavior, so do employees who are watching their bosses.

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge? We shouldn’t marginalise people for this. They must be integrated into society.

Now that I understand that I’m an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the ’40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S.

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats – maybe it’s imperative that we encounter the defeats – but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.

An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

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

Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.

I was so rude when I was a little girl.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.

It’s hard to practice compassion when we’re struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.

All my adult life people have been helping me.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

I’m a woman, and anytime you tell a woman that she looks nice, it’s not going to upset her.

Some animals are cunning and evil-disposed, as the fox; others, as the dog, are fierce, friendly, and fawning. Some are gentle and easily tamed, as the elephant; some are susceptible of shame, and watchful, as the goose. Some are jealous and fond of ornament, as the peacock.

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.

Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related.

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

There are people who want to make men’s lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.

Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.

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

People expect your behavior to conform to known patterns and conventions. Your task as a strategist is to upset their expectations.

I think if you follow anyone home, whether they live in Houston or London, and you sit at their dinner table and talk to them about their mother who has cancer or their child who is struggling in school, and their fears about watching their lives go by, I think we’re all the same.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that’s something that we should think about.

If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.