Mercy is the stuff you give to people that don't deserve it.

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.

Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift!

Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it.

Encourage everyone you meet with a smile or compliment. Make them feel better when you leave their presence and they will always be glad to see you coming.

We suffer much agony because we try to get from people what only God can give us, which is a sense of worth and value. Look to God for what you need, not to people.

Love can melt the hardest heart, heal the wounds of the broken heart and quiet the fears of the anxious heart.

I make mistakes every day. I'm not perfect in my behavior, but I want to be and that's what God is after, a heart that wants to be.

Don't be afraid to step out, have dreams, have visions, have hopes and always, always, always believe in miracles.

A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.

When we are truly confident and secure, the opinions of others cannot control us.

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attibutable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.

Things don’t have significance: they only have existence.Things are the only hidden meaning of things.

Millions of beauties and splendors are waiting for you. You go on moving around and around, never entering into the temple of life. The door is the heart.

[There has been] every kind of cruelty practiced upon all sorts of people in the name of religion.

Get your priorities straight. No one ever said on his death bed, 'Gee, if I'd only spent more time at the office.'

Do not crowd the understanding; it can comprehend so much and no more. A pint pot will not contain the measure of a quart.

There shouldn't be one Sal Khan - there should be 100,000 of them.

The computer takes up where psychoanalysis left off. It takes the ideas of a decentered self and makes it more concrete by modeling mind as a multiprocessing machine.

I think it's hard to have a full-time job and write fiction, but for essays, you need to be in the world.

I worry about what Trump will inspire in Canada, especially given incidents that have already occurred here since the election.