You only really get to know a person after a fight. Only then can you judge their true character

Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because the regret is stronger than gratitude.

What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven't even happened yet.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

Whoever is happy will make others happy.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices. Then our choices make us.

You can always give something, even if it is only kindness.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness.

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!

Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do).

Aren't maids the ultimate art critics?

Because your soul, on this soulless planet, sticks out like one star in a starless sky. And it’s beautiful.

You know if we were to look back and how we were in 1955 living in Jim Crow, living in segregation, living in segregated schools, it's hard to believe that it was America, but it really was.

Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us.

It's funny how a film about a murderous old English toff can help you.

Pity the married couple who expect too much from one another.

Religion is realization; not talk, nor doctrine, nor theories however beautiful they may be. It is being and becoming, not hearing, or acknowledging; it is the whole soul becoming what it believes.

...and the funny thing was that people who weren't entirely certain they were right always argued much louder than other people, as if the main person they were trying to convince were themselves.

I consider this a kind of neoliberalism of the Left, this rise and promotion of spontaneity above preparation.