Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude.

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.

Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.

No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.

A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.

People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent people ignore.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

Many people, especially ignorant people, want to punish you for speaking the truth, for being correct, for being you. Never apologize for being correct, or for being years ahead of your time. If you’re right and you know it, speak your mind. Speak your mind. Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is still the truth.

Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can’t afford the time to think.

I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.

If you know how quickly people forget the dead, you’ll stop living to impress people.

People that complete other people’s vision are understated.

Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.

Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.

Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind, feelings and emotions.

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

There can be no progress if people have no faith in tomorrow.

You need to associate with people who inspire you, people that challenge you to raise higher, people that make you better. Don’t waste your valuable time with people that are not adding to your growth. Your destiny is too important.

Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you’re in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

Love is such a powerful force. It’s there for everyone to embrace-that kind of unconditional love for all of humankind. That is the kind of love that impels people to go into the community and try to change conditions for others, to take risks for what they believe in.

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.