If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.

I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.

The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else’s eyes.

Non-reaction to the ego in others is one of the most effective ways not only of going beyond ego in yourself but also of dissolving the collective human ego.

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

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition – plowing straight ahead, come what may.

There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

I think I have learned that the best way to lift one’s self up is to help someone else.

There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put on some sunglasses because we were born this way.

We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and — in spite of True Romance magazines — we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely — at least, not all the time — but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don’t see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

Difficult times don’t come your way just so you can survive them; God uses these times in your life to form and refine you.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

Either you care, or you don’t. There’s no in-between. And if you care, then go all of the way.

The only way to define your limits is by going beyond them.

Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in prison.

Sometimes what you miss the most is the way a loved one made you feel about yourself.

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

I love my country. I love my guns. I love my family. I love the way it is now, and anybody that tries to change it has to come through me. That should be all of our attitudes. Cause this is America, and a country boy is good enough for me, son.

Some people think God does not like to be troubled with our constant coming and asking. The way to trouble God is not to come at all.

You’re off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So… get on your way!

The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable.

What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.

If you don’t have confidence, you’ll always find a way not to win.

Always try to do something for the other fellow and you will be agreeably surprised how things come your way – how many pleasing things are done for you.

Empathy is not simply a matter of trying to imagine what others are going through, but having the will to muster enough courage to do something about it. In a way, empathy is predicated upon hope.

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

You only live once, and the way I live, once is enough.

He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.