When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.

When your mother asks, ‚Do you want a piece of advice?‘ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.

Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,‘ he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. ‚Shake it off. Stop complainin‘. Stop grumblin‘. Stop cryin‘. We are going to press on. We have work to do.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don’t know who is calling that child.

Don’t let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don’t whine. You can be brought low, that’s OK, but don’t be reduced by them. Just say, ‚That’s life.‘

I don’t want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

I think it’s so important for girls to love themselves and to treat their bodies respectfully.

I am the center of attention in my job every single day; the thought of a wedding to me is exhausting. Why would I put myself through that?

Give to everyone who begs from you; and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.

You will never exaggerate when you speak good things of God. It is not possible to do so. Try, dear brethren, and boast in the Lord.

My readers – and I get 400 emails for a day, my readers normally they say, well, you understand me, and I answer, you do understand me also. We are in the same level.

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

I’ve been very fortunate.

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

I’m not the sort of person who gives up on things. The first time we crossed the Atlantic in the balloon, it crashed, and we went on and did the Pacific. First time we crossed the Atlantic in a boat, it sank, and we went on and got the record. So, generally speaking, we will pick ourselves up, brush ourselves down, and carry on.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.

Yes, I, well, when I write, as often as I can, I try to write as if I’m talking to people. It doesn’t always work, and one shouldn’t always try it, but I try and write as if I am talking, and trying to engage the reader in conversation.

It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.

There is no man on Earth or devil in Hell who can keep you from the very best God put in you.

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.

I’m one of the luckiest people on earth.

Don’t ever doubt yourselves or waste a second of your life. It’s too short, and you’re too special.

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

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

Sometimes, you might meet somebody that you love that’s turning into a ‚they.‘ My key is invite them to Miami and take them to the ocean and let them jump off the boat in the ocean, on the sand bar, and cleanse off and pray and then go take a shower, and hopefully the ‚they‘ is out of you.

Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

I don’t have faith in young people any more. I don’t waste time trying to communicate with them.

He that does good to another does good also to himself.

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

You just do what you can and you have as much fun as possible.

The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions.

Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: With mindfulness, you can see that she is unhappy, that she is suffering. You can see her wrong perceptions. You can see that she is not beautiful when she says things that are unkind.

When you stop caring what people think, you lose your capacity for connection. When you’re defined by it, you lose our capacity for vulnerability.

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

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

I like it when someone tells me ‚I don’t agree.‘ This is a true collaborator. When they say ‚Oh, how great, how great, how great,‘ that’s not useful.

And suddenly I realised that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension.

Skype actually does get a fair bit of revenue.

When I talk to kids, I’m really listening. When I do that, we have a little bit of a bigger connection than me being Kendrick Lamar and you being a student. It’s almost like we’re friends. Because a friend listens.

Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you’re getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand.

Most of the time, I’m not even working; I’m just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky.

At Facebook, we build tools to help people connect with the people they want and share what they want, and by doing this we are extending people’s capacity to build and maintain relationships.

Silence is safer than speech.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

I try not to go around looking like a hag.