When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness. I could see more possibilities in my life.

Reality simply consists of different points of view.

Don’t tell your problems to people: eighty percent don’t care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.

Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.

I’m very disappointed in Obama. I was very much in support of him in the beginning, but I cannot support war. I cannot support droning. I cannot support capitulating to the banks.

Positional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone.

I’ve written some great things. That’s a gift, but there’s consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.

I don’t think it’s possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.

When you’re in hell, you forget how great you really are because you’re suffering and you forget the great things you’ve done.

You know that your happiness and suffering depend on the happiness and suffering of others. That insight helps you not to do wrong things that will bring suffering to yourself and to other people.

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

I’m the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that’s horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it.

It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

When I left the University of Notre Dame, I honestly felt I would never coach again.

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can’t get out.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

I resigned from the Marine Corps and flying in 1974, even though I loved them both. I quit because I no longer wanted to fight for peace. Instead, I believe we can build a more sustainable peace by working for prosperity.

I can’t read the newspaper without crying. I’m easily affected by horrible events, you see.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.

There is such a thing as old emotional pain living inside you. It is an accumulation of painful life experience that was not fully faced and accepted in the moment it arose. It leaves behind an energy form of emotional pain.

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Still and all, why bother? Here’s my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.

I’m a whopping 5 foot 4 inches tall. I’m not going to get any taller.

The bottom line is that everyone thinks differently.

I actually don’t want a throne at all, because I don’t view myself as a queen; I view myself as one of my fans.

Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

Fame doesn’t fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming.

I’m not a regrets-type person.

I think I had a mild case of Asperger’s as a younger guy, but that typically just wears off after a while.

I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don’t always agree with them.

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

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.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience.

I don’t like to read things that people write about me. I’d rather read what kids have to say about me because it’s not their profession to do that.

You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child’s eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

I’ve had no contact with my daughter for years. That’s her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don’t want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.

The word ‚happy‘ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

Love is a state of being.