"The soul of the world is nourished by people's Happiness."
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"A man's dignity isn't measured by the people he has around him when he's at the peak of his success, but by his ability not to forget those who helped him when his need was greatest."
"There are tons of people who have made great music, great art, great whatever, but you don't know about them until the people lift you to a certain height so that you could even be visible and get any kind of recognition."
"It is not a demonstration of kindness or friendship to the people we care about to join them in indulging in wrongheaded, negative feelings. We do a better service to ourselves and others by remaining detached and avoiding melodramatic reactions."
"See, I don't like places where people can't dance - don't like clubs or theatres where a bunch of bourgeois people sit around tip, tip, tipping their fingers."
"The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories."
"People's mood is really determined primarily by their genetic make-up and personality, and in the second place by their immediate context, and only in the third and fourth place by worries and concerns and other things like that."
"Uninformed people can be easily manipulated."
"Bad poetry is caused by people who sit down and think, Now I am going to write a Poem."
"The peril of this Nation is not in any foreign foe! We, the people, are its power, its peril, and its hope."
"The goal isn't how much money you make, but how much you help people."
"I've never been able to understand the seriousness of it all, the seriousness of pride. People talk, act, live as if they're never going to die. And what do they leave behind? Nothing. Nothing but a mask."
"Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people."
"I never said half the crap people said I did."
"There is nothing divine about morality; it is a purely human affair. If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. What the individual can do is to give a fine example, and to have the courage to uphold ethical values .. in a society of cynics."
"A lot of people say, 'AC/DC - that's the band with the little guy who runs around in school shorts!'"
"You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better."
"Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does."
"You will not become a saint through other people's sins."
"I want to remember it all, the good times and the bad times, the late nights, the boozing, the dancing into dawns, and all the great and not-so-great people I met and loved in those years."