While there’s life, there’s hope.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.

We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won’t be a world – at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others.

I don’t want to say anything negative about anybody or anything or anybody’s political beliefs. I’ve never done that. I’ve never tried to get involved in those things.

Even the most seemingly unpleasant situations – if you become aligned with it, something good will emerge from that.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else’s ideas of who you can or can’t become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a ‚Keep Out‘ sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

God is a great God! I want to encourage you to expect great things from Him.

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death’s the other.

You always have to remember that if you say something negative, it’s going to come back to haunt you.

Life is short, the art long.

Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

A shady business never yields a sunny life.

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.

I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

Life isn’t meant to be easy. It’s hard to take being on the top – or on the bottom. I guess I’m something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things… Life is one crisis after another.

Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place.

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.

Life is warfare.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

When one door is closed, don’t you know, another is open.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

If a whole bunch of people want to make your life a living hell, they’re gonna do it.

It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.

What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it’s a drag? But you see, that’s what people do.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‚I’m possible‘!

I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and… I believe in miracles.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

I always try to put a seed of hope into people’s hearts. I’m not there to teach them doctrine necessarily, but to let them know that God is a good God, and has a plan for their lives. Hopefully, that will restore their faith, or draw them into faith.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

Life is anything but predictable.

My message to all the activists is to just keep going, and I know it really may seem impossible and hopeless sometimes – it always does – so you just have to keep going because if you try hard enough and long enough you will make a difference.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

Life must be lived as play.

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

Compliment three people every day.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

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.

Over the years I’ve seen people lose a spouse and then withdraw and lose interest in life, and I believe we need to resist that.