People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
The crowning experience of all, for the homecoming man, is the wonderful feeling that, after all he has suffered, there is nothing he need fear anymore—except his God.
The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred.
One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.
You do indeed have a past, but not now! And, yes, you have a future, but not now! You can consume your now with thoughts of 'then' and 'maybe,' but that will keep you from the inner peace you could experience.
I never did anything for money. It was never about money. My experience is when people do things for money, you make bad decisions.
It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road.
I love the World Cup. We all come together to explore our diversity while at the same time reveling in our oneness.
Most times, we are just one step away from what changes everything, but we don't get to experience the change because we give up so soon. Keep working until it works.
If you’re a young person, like I used to be and you’re at home and you’re being called weird or different, I’m here to tell you your critics do not count. Their words will fade. You won’t.
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
I enjoy creating. And if you can do it in a cool way, do it. You can’t worry about disappointing people or what their expectations might be.
We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
The question isn’t, can you handle the situation? The question is, can you handle your mind? Can you manage the thoughts and emotions that are trying to poison your progress?
My teenage years were exactly what they were supposed to be. Everybody has their own path. It’s laid out for you. It’s just up to you to walk it.
Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.
The principle on which this country was founded and by which it has always been governed is that Americanism is a matter of the mind and heart; Americanism is not, and never was, a matter of race or ancestry.
Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.
Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.
No experience is a coincidence, everything happens for a reason. Because you are yet to find it, doesn't mean it has no meaning.
And it's just the spiral when it starts going the other way. It's like, sometimes you just have to get out the way and wait until the downward spiral stops.
I used to think that anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
Just keep going. When the water's too still, I start splashing around and things jump out of the water.
