Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.

Like any creative human being, I would like a bit more control so that it would be a little easier for me when the director says, ‚One tear, right now,‘ that one tear would pop out.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

What air is to the body, to feel understood is to the heart.

Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe.

The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.

We live in a culture that relishes tearing others down. It’s ultimately more fulfilling, though, to help people reach their goals. Instead of feeling jealous, remember: If God did it for them, He can do it for you.

There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.

There are many things that happen every day that we could murmur about if we let ourselves go there. But they really aren’t worth the effort it takes to get upset and gripe about it.

I’m a can-do girl.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

God is patient with us to become the God’s children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.

We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.

Partnering with Atlantic Records creates the opportunity to take what we’re doing to the next level, without compromising.

Every setback means you’re one step closer to seeing the dream come to pass.

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

Let the path be open to talent.

The just is close to the people’s heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

Not only do I think being nice and kind is easy but being kind, in my opinion, is important.

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than it takes to see the bad.

My father wasn’t around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, ‚Why me? Why don’t I have a father? Why isn’t he around? Why did he leave my mother?‘ But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, ‚I don’t know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?‘

I have a collective sense of suffering.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

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

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

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.

When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That’s when you can get more creative in solving problems.

Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.

Never leave a rhinestone unturned.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.

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?

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.

There is always something infinitely mean about other people’s tragedies.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

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

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

I don’t have many sad days.

If you don’t set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one’s soul.

What we have found in this country, and maybe we’re more aware of it now, is one problem that we’ve had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Listen, I think that people want a president who is going to be interested in the things that keep them up at night, the things that are weighing on them, the things that are debilitating and can be addressed.

I’ve been searching for ways to heal myself, and I’ve found that kindness is the best way.

Some people are jerks, and some people aren’t.

I am really proud that I am one of the artists that has the opportunity to be on magazine covers and to be in the movies.

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me – spiritually and financially.

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can’t get bitter, we can’t get jaded.

Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.

Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer. You’re gay, you’re sick, you’re nervous or whatever.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

Animals are my friends… and I don’t eat my friends.