I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

My message is that God is a good God.

The idea that to make a man work you’ve got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We’ve done that for so long that we’ve forgotten there’s any other way.

I have a family, loving aunts, and a good home. No, on the surface I seem to have everything except my one true friend. All I think about when I’m with friends is having a good time. I can’t bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things. We don’t seem to be able to get any closer, and that’s the problem.

What good are fans? You can’t eat applause for breakfast. You can’t sleep with it.

There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other.

To become ‚unique,‘ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

No pressure, no diamonds.

We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‚Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.‘

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Part of me feels you can’t say you were truly in love if it didn’t last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that’s when I’ll know it’s real – because it lasted.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Rocks and waters, etc., are words of God, and so are men. We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don’t know why he’s with me. I don’t know whether I’m good enough. But if I make him happy, then I’m everything I want to be.

Laughter heals all wounds, and that’s one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you’re going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing.

Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.

Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related.

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

I’m not very ambitious at all.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

‚Your Erroneous Zones’ was the book that went over the top simply because I believed in it so much.

If a subject excites us, if it stirs our deepest curiosity, or if we have to learn because the stakes are high, we pay much more attention. What we absorb sinks in.

We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn’t make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.

I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don’t just want to possess it, it will find you.

The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we’ll fail, and sometimes we’ll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you’ll find support.

Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

I believe many people feel like God is mad at them. One day I put a post on Facebook that said, ‚God is not mad at you.‘ Within a few hours, we literally had thousands of positive responses from people saying things like, ‚That is exactly what I needed to hear today.‘ Obviously, this is a message we need to hear.

I am not designed to come second or third. I am designed to win.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

I’m definitely gaining new fans, and that’s the key of any success… gain more love.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won’t presume to probe into the faults of others.

You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

You’ve got to go out on a limb sometimes because that’s where the fruit is.

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

The important thing is that your teammates have to know you’re pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.

I make friends faster and easier than journalists.

Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

I thank God I’m myself and for the life I’m given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.