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If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.'

Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.

It ain't bragging if you can do it.

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?

I know who I am. I don't have to brag. I know what I contributed. I know what I did. You think you can do it better? Hey, go right ahead. The stage is yours.

I wish my name was Brian because maybe sometimes people would misspell my name and call me Brain. That's like a free compliment and you don't even gotta be smart to notice it.

You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.

Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.

I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.

I've been asked why does Ireland produce so many great musicians, and the answer is it doesn't. When you count the great musicians Ireland has given the world in the last 20 years, you can do it on one hand.

Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.