"Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It brings out the very best in people. But it takes time and patience."
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"My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn't prevent you doing well, and don't regret the things it interferes with. Don't be disabled in spirit, as well as physically."
"Love is the common denominator that unites all people whatever religion they are."
"The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance."
"Excessive concern with religion seems to me a last resort for people who have been exhausted by life."
"Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good."
"A Government protected by foreigners will never be accepted by a free people."
"Sometimes, love feels like a life or death situation. Losing true love is pretty much as bad as it gets, other than actually dying or losing good health. Most people know that. Most people can relate. It's like the end of the world."
"Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be re-elected."
"I divide the world into three Classes - The few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, the overwhelming majority who have no notion of what happens."
"People were saying that David Geffen and I had gotten married and it just blew me away. Not that they thought I was gay, but that they thought I could land a guy that hot."
"Leave people to their opinions and judgements. They cannot harm you; it is their understanding that is faulty, not yours."
"People call it Valentines Day, I call it Tuesday."
"In the past, when people criticized me for asking unexpected questions, I felt ashamed. Now I realize that normal people are acting in a superficial and often false manner. So rather than let them make me feel bad, I express my annoyance. It's my way of trying to strike a blow for logic and rationality."
"People call me wild. Not really though, I'm not.I guess I've never been normal, not what you call Establishment. I'm country."
"Act as if! Act as if you're a wealthy man, rich already, and then you'll surely become rich. Act as if you have unmatched confidence and then people will surely have confidence in you. Act as if you have unmatched experience and then people will follow your advice. And act as if you are already a tremendous success, and as sure as I stand here today - you will become successful."
"People can't see what's in your heart - they can only see what you do."
"God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow."
"There is a world of difference between facts and the truth. You can have so many facts that you don't deal with the truth. You never get to the truth. You have the places where, the people who, the times when, the reasons why, the methods how - blah blah. And never get to the human truth. The human truth is as elusive as the air. And as important as the air."
"It's not too late to develop new friendships or reconnect with people."