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"Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important."
"Let's never try to get even with our enemies, because if we do we will hurt ourselves far more than we hurt them. Let's do as General Eisenhower does: let's never waste a minute thinking about people we don't like."
"Great leaders have a heart for people. They take time for people. They view people as the bottom line, not as a tool to get to the bottom line."
"I don't want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself."
"People do not see that the main question is not : "Am I loved?" which is to a large extent the question : "Am I approved of? Am I protected? Am I admired?" The main question is: "Can I love?"
"It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education."
"Good people are happy when something good happens to someone else."
"All these weirdos, and me getting a little better every day right in the midst of them. I had never known, never even imagined for a heartbeat, that there might be a place for people like us."
"It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."
"I have found people on both sides of the aisle, white and black, that'll give you the shirt off their back. And I've also found people that won't give you a piece of bread if you're starving to death."
"How can we create a cultural legacy of happiness? Let other people matter."
"I had some experience in dealing with people who have mental illness and depression, but I didn't see the signs in myself. I couldn't ask for help because I didn't know I needed help."
"People fear what they do not understand."
"You can't criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently."
"We are lucky to live in a world made up of so many different kinds of people and I am confident in the direction we are going."
"What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!"
"Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent."
"Work hard to achieve integrity in your work and your relationships with the people you work with."
"I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets."
"When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown."
