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"We think we have a responsibility. And I think it's important for all of us in the Western world to realize that we've all been blessed a lot and if you go to these parts they don't have a lot, even before the tsunami."
"I hope people will think very carefully about the future."
"Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think. So start each day by thinking of all the things you have to be thankful for. Your future will depend very largely on the thoughts you think today. So think thoughts of hope and confidence and love and success."
"I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary."
"If you think you are leading and turn around to see no one following, then you are just taking a walk."
"If you think the cause of your problem is 'out there,' you'll try to solve it from the outside. Take the shortcut: solve it from within."
"I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is."
"I'm trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are going through."
"You are what you've been looking for. The answer is always in you alone. There is nothing in the external world. For the external world is an emanation of your own mind, your own thinking and your own imagination. You created this world."
"Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has."
"What other people think of me is none of my business. Sometimes, it hurts my feelings, but I have to just keep going."
"Enjoy your body, use it every way you can. Don’t be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own."
"I think one of my favourite films is 'Dark Victory' with Bette Davis. Why? She was so wonderful in that film. And maybe I just want a good cry once in a while without having to go through a divorce."
"If you disrespect everybody that you run into, how in the world do you think everybody's supposed to respect you?"
"I think what Kanye West is going to mean is something similar to what Steve Jobs means."
"Most of the problems in life are because of two reasons, we act without thinking or we keep thinking without acting."
"Do you think that God would separate me from my husband if I killed myself? I feel as though I am going out of my mind at times. Wouldn’t God understand that I just want to be with him?"
"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been alive. Only if we face these open wounds in ourselves can we understand them in other people."
"When I was young I used to have this thing where I wanted to see everything I used to think 'How can I die without seeing every inch of this world?'"
"I don't think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light till some other argument is resorted to other than moral persuasion."
