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

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

Fun is good.

We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind.

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.

Prince Charles is definitely my hero; he uses his position to do only good in this world.

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.

He who has felt his own ruin will not imagine the case of any to be hopeless; nor will he think them too fallen to be worthy his regard.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.

I read all the time, and I’m often struck by something I’m reading.

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

I think New York has evolved in my work just the way the city has.

I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

My superhero has always been Tendulkar, and it will be Tendulkar for life. He is someone who has inspired me immensely. Just watching him play for India, I used to dream of winning games for India, because he used to do it single handedly.

The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

To be treated well in places where you don’t expect to be treated well, to find things in common with people you thought previously you had very, very little in common with, that can’t be a bad thing.

In cricket, my superhero is Sachin Tendulkar. He has always been my hero and will continue to remain so. Apart from him and outside cricket, my mother has remained my inspiration. Whatever difficult time I had faced, she was always there for me. She has given me all the strength. She maintained her composure and supported me in tough times.

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

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

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

Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That’s what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don’t. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He’s a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life.

Don’t ever criticize yourself. Don’t go around all day long thinking, ‚I’m unattractive, I’m slow, I’m not as smart as my brother.‘ God wasn’t having a bad day when he made you… If you don’t love yourself in the right way, you can’t love your neighbour. You can’t be as good as you are supposed to be.

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

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

If your mom cries a lot, you probably cry a lot. It’s what you learn.

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.

Every once in a while, I get mad. ‚The Lorax‘ came out of my being angry. The ecology books I’d read were dull… In ‚The Lorax,‘ I was out to attack what I think are evil things and let the chips fall where they might.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

I must be cruel, only to be kind.

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things.

I’ve always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

Only when Christ comes again will the little white children of Alabama walk hand in hand with little black children.

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

You don’t have to be a renowned artist like Q-Tip to try your hand at poetry. You don’t need any special equipment – that’s the beauty of it.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

The American people have not become heartless.

Sometimes I’ll jot a clever turn of phrase down. Sometimes I’ll just remember it.

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

Where the mind goes, the man follows.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

I have a collective sense of suffering.

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Whenever you’re going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.

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.