You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.
The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them.
Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!
We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence. But the way we treat them puts on display the very worst of human behavior.
Mistakes and pressure are inevitable; the secret to getting past them is to stay calm.
Young people all over the world are very frustrated. They are very disillusioned. Many of them are turning their backs on religion. They are walking away from the faith of their parents, and most of this is because religion has failed them.
Every age has its storytelling form, and video gaming is a huge part of our culture. You can ignore or embrace video games and imbue them with the best artistic quality. People are enthralled with video games in the same way as other people love the cinema or theatre.
Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.
It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.
I think the currency of leadership is transparency. You’ve got to be truthful. I don’t think you should be vulnerable every day, but there are moments where you’ve got to share your soul and conscience with people and show them who you are, and not be afraid of it.
Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.
The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn.
The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.
We need to respect the oceans and take care of them as if our lives depended on it. Because they do.
No matter what kind of challenges or difficulties or painful situations you go through in your life, we all have something deep within us that we can reach down and find the inner strength to get through them.
Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
The argument that gay marriage doesn’t affect straight marriages is a ridiculous red herring: Gay marriage affects society and law in dramatic ways. Religious groups will come under direct assault as federal and state governments move to strip them of their non-profit statuses if they refuse to perform gay marriages.
Toxic people defy logic. Some are blissfully unaware of the negative impact that they have on those around them, and others seem to derive satisfaction from creating chaos and pushing other people’s buttons.
If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
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.
Miracles happen everyday, change your perception of what a miracle is and you’ll see them all around you.
Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them.
It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.
There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
When you love someone and care about them, you want what’s best for them, and it’s always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren’t what’s best for them, how hard you try.
People have this capacity within them to set the world straight.
I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess.
Let them cant about decorum, Who have characters to lose!
You were once wild here. Don’t let them tame you.
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first.
People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.
People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
Stereotypes do exist, but we have to walk through them.
Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.
You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.
The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them.
I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.
Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.
I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry – just making them feel – is paramount to me.
I have my flaws, but I embrace them and I love them because they’re mine.
‘Pretty Lady’ is the conversation piece where you just need to compliment your lady. If you are in a club setting, and you just been eyeing a beautiful woman, this song came from me trying to compliment women and them turning their face up at me.
The strangest part about being famous is you don’t get to give first impressions anymore. Everyone already has an impression of you before you meet them.
The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.
We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.
I love fast cars… and to go too fast in them.
There are good days and there are bad days, and this is one of them.
Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.
What’s cool is when you’re able to give your audience imagination and you don’t have to cage them in like animals.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.
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.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
I bring out the worst in my enemies and that’s how I get them to defeat themselves.
We shall never change our political leaders until we change the people who elect them.
It has been said that time heals all wounds. I don’t agree. The wounds remain. Time – the mind, protecting its sanity – covers them with some scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
Sometimes a villain is very quiet – it makes them more deadly, more intellectual.
What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?
The clever men at Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much, as intelligent Mr. Toad.
Things are beautiful if you love them.
Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.
A person isn’t who they are during the last conversation you had with them – they’re who they’ve been throughout your whole relationship.
