By learning to be more warm-hearted we can create a more compassionate world.

Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.

You were born to be real, not to be perfect. You are here to be you, not to live someone else's life.

Wisdom is the best gift you can ever build. It gets you to unimagined heights and knowledge follows it.

I know that I do not know, and uncertainty, certainly, is the cruelest of words.

Earn Nicely, spend wisely and you will live happily.

Manners and politeness will never become old-fashioned.

Hope lies in what action we take.

It is in the nature of the mind that the more we cultivate and familiarize ourselves with positive emotions, the more powerful they become.

The future can be different if we choose to make it so.

Positive emotions like compassion and loving kindness engender in us a deep sense of peace and serenity, and benefits others as well.

If you only go around once in life, then why has that one gone around more than once?

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Publishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a book will have, and advertising seems to do very little good.

The story of the betrayal of Jesus by Judas gave a moral and religious rationale to anti-Jewish sentiment, and that's what made it persistent and vicious.

We are selling ourselves very short by funneling our energies into what the traditional perception is of academic and monetary success.

it's dreadful when two people's senses of humor are antagonistic. I don't believe there's any bridging that gulf!

The thing I sort of get tired of hearing is if I don't hit home runs or don't get hits, that the pressure of the media is getting to me. Absolutely not. Believe me, it's not getting to me.

Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.

Now, don't get me wrong: I'm not rubbishing penal substitution. But there are other options that have been advocated by Reformed thinkers of the past.

My headmaster chastised me with a diabolical instrument a leather strap tacked to a piece of wood but he taught me with such villainous success that I am now Prime Minister.