Genuine love will always feel urged to communicate joy - to be a joy-giver. Mankind needs joy.

Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly.

A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility.

It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things.

Kind words are a creative force, a power that concurs in the building up of all that is good, and energy that showers blessings upon the world.

Only a kind person is able to judge another justly and to make allowances for his weaknesses. A kind eye, while recognizing defects, sees beyond them.

Have you not noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than your harsh ones?

Cheerfulness is a very great help in fostering the virtue of charity. Cheerfulness itself is a virtue.

Nobody needs a smile so much as the one who has none to give. So get used to smiling heart-warming smiles, and you will spread sunshine in a sometimes dreary world.

If you want to make friends, go out of your way to do things for other people--things that require time, energy, unselfishness, and thoughtfulness.

A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent.

The nature of life is mess, chaotic, exquisitely beautiful, excruciatingly painful, immensely joy-filled, and unpredictable.

How to succeed: Try hard enough. How to fail: Try too hard.

All flatterers are mercenary, and all low-minded men are flatterers.

A hero is an ordinary person doing things in an extra ordinary way.

Some days I think I look kind of cute, but other days I try to avoid the mirror.

The hard part about SNL is, there's no real communication when you get there. It's not like people are mean to you, they just act like you're not there.

Begin to act from your dominion. Declare the truth by telling yourself that there is nothing to be afraid of, that you no longer entertain any images of fear.

You proceed from a false assumption: I have no ego to bruise.

Euler - The unsurpassed master of analytic invention.

I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.