When men speak ill of thee, live so that nobody will believe them.
Holiness doesn’t mean doing extraordinary things, but doing ordinary things with love and faith.
God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
Charity is the root of all good works.
It’s incredibly liberating to spend an hour talking to someone and not caring about what you sound like. It’s about understanding myself. Sometimes I’ll speak to my therapist for an hour a day. It’s become part of my routine.
Every child needs at least one adult who is irrationally crazy about him or her.
I want the world to be better because I was here.
When you’re 20 you care what everyone thinks, when you’re 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks, when you’re 60 you realize no one was ever thinking about you in the first place. You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.
I don’t know, I don’t care, and it doesn’t make any difference.
Your outer beauty will capture the eyes, your inner beauty will capture the heart.
In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.
Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation’s compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain love for one another.
I think we must cling to the hope that we can see in the great heroism, the bravery of the firemen and policemen, and the outpouring of caring and concern that has come pouring in from around the world.
Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.
We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity; more than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.
More than machinery, we need humanity.
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.
Caring about what you are doing is considered either unimportant or taken for granted.