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

I need music. It’s like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what’s going on – bad games, press, whatever!

I like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance.

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.

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

There are people who want to make men’s lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.

Never be ashamed! There’s some who’ll hold it against you, but they’re not worth bothering with.

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

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

It’s presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels.

I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there’s purpose and worth to each and every life.

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

When I talk to kids, I’m really listening. When I do that, we have a little bit of a bigger connection than me being Kendrick Lamar and you being a student. It’s almost like we’re friends. Because a friend listens.

It’s hard to wrap my head around the fact that there are people who can’t or won’t see what Black Lives Matter is trying to accomplish.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.

You’re not better than anybody else, but you’re not less than anybody else. You’re a child of the Most High God.

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

The future is called ‚perhaps‘, which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.

Let the path be open to talent.

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s probably the most important thing in a person.

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

It is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don’t have.

If you’re doing your best, you won’t have any time to worry about failure.

Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them.

The fact is that since you’re a divine creation who originated in the world of Spirit, you have exactly the right amount of smarts to accomplish all that you need and want to do while you’re here on earth. It’s all perfect… and so are you!

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.

I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.

There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.

I don’t want flowers or candy or anything like that. I just want somebody to say, ‚Wow, you’ve done a great job.‘

May we do good everywhere as we have opportunity, and results will not be wanting!

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.

I look after people.

God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right person, or suddenly your health improves, or suddenly you’re able to pay off your house. That’s God shifting things in your favor.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.

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

I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn’t open. The only thing I had was cracks. I’d do everything to get through those cracks – scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it’s as big as a garage.

Man’s nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

I try to look on all the great things God’s done, and not focus on the negative. It’s a perspective.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I’m a realist.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

People always tell you, ‚Be humble. Be humble.‘ When was the last time someone told you to be amazing? Be great! Be great! Be awesome! Be awesome!

It’s that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so ‚don’t fuss, dear; get on with it.‘

You can’t knock on opportunity’s door and not be ready.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

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.

Man is not made for defeat.

Fear is real, but so is love.

When we’re looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.