‚Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

I think sometimes the critics want me to beat people down, and that’s not in me. I want to lift people up.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

When the people you love are gone, you’re alone.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

You learn that there’s no right way to do it, no wrong way to do it. It’s just what you feel comfortable with, to trust that, and don’t let anybody box you in to a certain style of parenting or make you feel a certain way about what your kids do.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you’re a person of influence and a person of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.

I have never been bewildered for long in any fight with our enemies – I was Armed with Insight.

I rely on other people every day of my life.

The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion’s roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,‘ he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. ‚Shake it off. Stop complainin‘. Stop grumblin‘. Stop cryin‘. We are going to press on. We have work to do.

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

If you are not being bullied all I would say – cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well – is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there’s someone in your class that maybe doesn’t have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person.

If you want what you’re saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody’s life. Your own, first.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

We must have government that builds stamina into communities and men. That makes men instead of mendicants.

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we’ve got a system that allows them to do it.

However my parents – both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

The reason that I’m here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That’s my truth.

I’m a pretty tough guy, you know. I’m a pretty hard man. I’ve got a lot of compassion, but I don’t waste time with people.

Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.

Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation’s promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.

My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what’s mine.

I was the first woman to burn my bra – it took the fire department four days to put it out.

The Hindus are some of the nicest people you’ll ever meet.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally.

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

Ethiopia didn’t just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, ‚Would you take my son with you?‘ He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die.

Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.

So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.

We don’t get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.

Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one’s experiences in common.

Many churches today have special programs for people who are grieving, and these can be very helpful.

Tonight – to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans – I ask for your support.

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

We’re not a fragile people. We’re not a frightful people. Our power doesn’t come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way. We don’t look to be ruled.

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.