Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?
I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.
A kid grows up a lot faster on the golf course. Golf teaches you how to behave.
They may forget what you said – but they will never forget how you made them feel.
If you are a chef, no matter how good a chef you are, it’s not good cooking for yourself; the joy is in cooking for others – it’s the same with music.
Systematic theology – be careful how you tie down the Word to fit your set and final creeds, systems, dogmas, and organized theistic philosophies! The Word of God is not bound! It’s free to say what it will to the individual, and no one can outline it into dispensations which cannot be broken.
Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
No matter how much money you have, you can lose it.
Life can be tough sometimes. But I think it just starts with admitting, ‘Okay, the world’s not perfect, how do we live our lives within that and not be miserable?’
Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole.
I cannot believe how fine I am with being bald.
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
Those who know how to think need no teachers.
Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.
Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
The great thing about social media was how it gave a voice to voiceless people.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.
How do you know you’re going to do something, untill you do it?
It’s funny how most people love the dead, once you’re dead, you’re made for life.
No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.
You can be technically strong, and focus all your efforts on elements like casting, music, cinematography and sets, but they are all just add ons. End of the day, filmmaking is really about how well you tell a story.
Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.
My relationship to power and authority is that I’m all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.
Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.
