When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept.

One day it will be over, and I don’t care.

It doesn’t matter who likes you or doesn’t like you, all that matters is that God likes you. He accepts you, he approves of you.

When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair, there is no hope.

The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

There’s always going to be people who don’t understand or accept the united science, and I will just ignore them, as I’m only acting and communicating on the science.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

I’m not a complete psychopath. Am I partially? Sure. I’ll accept that. But I’m not a complete psychopath.

I’ll die a crazy old man!

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

I don’t want enemies. I want friends, and I want them in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and loving whoever they want to.

I don’t suffer of anything that I’ve lost.

Let’s embrace being not normal!

There’s something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.

It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.

You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That’s a part of it.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

The only thing I know is I ain’t changing my brand. I know what I believe. I’m confident in what I know. And I’m gonna say it. And if folks like it, wonderful. If they don’t like it, I understand.

Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much larger. Some are villains and others are good guys. But all of them are necessary; otherwise, they wouldn’t be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

I sang a song at my sister’s wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.

God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God’s children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can’t do that. It’s gone, gone forever.

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.

As you know, I’m an immigrant. I came over here as an immigrant, and what gave me the opportunities, what made me to be here today, is the open arms of Americans. I have been received. I have been adopted by America.

Whether you like it or not, you’re forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don’t fear death, I’m a fatalist. I believe when it’s your time, that’s it. It’s the hand you’re dealt.

Once you’ve grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you’ve inherited, you don’t even notice it any longer.

A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Always say ‚yes‘ to the present moment… Surrender to what is. Say ‚yes‘ to life – and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.

Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.

I think everyone should be with who they love.

Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

I love imperfections.

The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You’re encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren’t that smart, who aren’t that creative.

The fact that you are willing to say, ‚I do not understand, and it is fine,‘ is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that’s going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.

Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.

I’m actually starting to like more and more people who have convictions that are unpopular.

I was a Marine for 41 years, and it wasn’t long enough. We enjoy putting on that uniform.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.

I am not afraid of death, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

Whether or not I like a piece of data has very little bearing on whether or not I am likely to accept it.

The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.

Forgotten is forgiven.

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores. All kinds of people. The image of the Statue of Liberty with Emma Lazarus‘ famous poem. She lifts her lamp and welcomes people to the golden shore, where they will not experience prejudice because of the color of their skin, the religious faith that they follow.

I don’t have a problem with Hulk Hogan. People say things and do things, and who am I to judge?

Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else’s religion, but he’ll accept his gold.

People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can’t knock it.