There is only one real deprivation… and that is not to be able to give one’s gifts to those one loves most.
There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.
Having children truly ends adolescence. We are all either parents or children: responsibility-takers or those who demand from others.
Those who understand only what can be explained understand very little.
My kids are my No. 1 priority. They’re the light in my everyday life. The sunshine. The miracle. Those eyes. Those smiles. At the same time, I have an extended, amazing family that is my audience. All these people have been with me for such a long time. I have these two responsibilities.
The only people who never fail are those who never try.
People who ask confidently get more than those who are hesitant and uncertain. When you’ve figured out what you want to ask for, do it with certainty, boldness and confidence. Don’t be shy or feel intimidated by the experience. You may face some unexpected criticism, but be prepared for it with confidence.
Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
Those who own much have much to fear.
Modern cynics and skeptics… see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.
Wellness, I came to realize, will not happen by accident. It must be a daily practice, especially for those of us who are more susceptible to the oppressiveness of the world.
The people who deserve and need subsidies are those who are on average incomes and less.
The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
Bad things do happen in the world, like war, natural disasters, disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.
I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.
Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.
It’s not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
Being a teen can be tough. Just try to surround yourself with really good friends that really have your back, and also be a really good friend to those who really care about you. If you’re not sure about certain things, talk to your friends that you trust and your family.
I’m a very outgoing person. I’m always happy, I’m one of those people who are always smiling. If somebody described me to somebody else, they’d say the kid with the curly hair with the big smile on his face. I get along with everybody.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
Few would deny the importance of tackling online hatred or child abuse content. The internet, after all, has become a key weapon for those who disseminate and incite hatred and violence against minorities, and for those who pose a horrifying threat to children.
The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences. Today is one of those experiences.
Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.
The more often we see the things around us – even the beautiful and wonderful things – the more they become invisible to us. That is why we often take for granted the beauty of this world: the flowers, the trees, the birds, the clouds – even those we love. Because we see things so often, we see them less and less.
There’s always failure. And there’s always disappointment. And there’s always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums.
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
Those who own the country ought to govern it.
God helps those who help themselves.
I have not an ounce of regret. Every link is so valuable in forming the chain that is my life. Who I am today is because of those links, and I wouldn’t change any of them.
Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.
Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.
Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience – I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed.
The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.
But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.
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.
A smart contract is a mechanism involving digital assets and two or more parties, where some or all of the parties put assets in, and assets are automatically redistributed among those parties according to a formula based on certain data that is not known at the time the contract is initiated.
Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
My life will not be defined by a single political campaign. Those will come and go. But what has driven me to run for elected office in the past still drives me today: the knowledge that heroes do walk among us with tremendous strength and power.
We need the compassion and the courage to change the conditions that support our suffering. Those conditions are things like ignorance, bitterness, negligence, clinging, and holding on.
There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American Dream.
There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Aim for the sky, but move slowly, enjoying every step along the way. It is all those little steps that make the journey complete.
Know what’s important and what isn’t. Have the wisdom to know the right thing to do, the integrity to do it, the character to stand up to those who don’t, and the courage to stop those who won’t.
None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.
He’s dreaming with his eyes open, and those that dream with their eyes open are dangerous, for they do not know when their dreams come to an end.
Finding your soul begins by discovering our ability to listen! Alternatively, by sharing a smile, a laugh and just by being human to everyone – from friends, colleagues, family, and especially strangers, including those who are not from the same station in life as you.
The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
Jay-Z called me onstage during my song that I produced for ‘Watch the Throne?’ That was surreal, man. One of those situations I’ll never forget. I’ll be able to show my kids the footage of when Jay-Z brought me onstage.
I’m human, I’m not perfect. I make mistakes all the time, but I guess my job is to keep those mistakes to myself, which I’m already fine doing and just try to be the best I can be for those kids.
