As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
You have this one life. How do you wanna spend it? Apologizing? Regretting? Questioning? Hating yourself? Dieting? Running after people who don't see you? Be brave. Believe in yourself. Do what feels good. Take risks. You have this one life. Make yourself proud.
The price we pay for being ourselves is worth it.
As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
Teach a child how to think, not what to think.
I ... started out to become a jazz pianist; in the meantime I started singing and I sang the way I felt and that's just the way it came out.
You've got to change with the public's taste.
I'm proud of our court. It knocks back a lot of the propaganda the Communists put out about the way America treats her Negroes.
I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.
If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.
"Freedom" in capitalist countries exists only for those who possess money and who consequently hold power.
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.
Do not allow your heart to take pleasure with the praises of people, nor be saddened by their condemnation.
Fear and faith have something in common. They both ask us to believe in something we cannot see.
Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.
With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.
When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
We must stop constantly fighting for human rights and equal justice in an unjust system, and start building a society where equal rights are an integral part of the design.
No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
Schools have not necessarily much to do with education...they are mainly institutions of control where certain basic habits must be inculcated in the young. Education is quite different and has little place in school.
The true character of a society is revealed in how it treats its children.
Economy is the basis of society. When the economy is stable, society develops. The ideal economy combines the spiritual and the material, and the best commodities to trade in are sincerity and love.
Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do.
A man rejects God neither because of intellectual demands nor because of the scarcity of evidence. A man rejects God because of a moral resistance that refuses to admit his need for God.
I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.