People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

On becoming more acquainted with the word of the Bible, I began to understand so much more of what I had been taught, and of what I had learned about life and about the people in mine.

Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.

The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.

People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear.

To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

Have you heard of this new thing called the internet? It's giving people new expectations. It's allowing them to become their own expert. Knowledge lies anxious at their fingertips. Gloss over the truth in your advertising and you'll quickly be dismissed as a poser.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.

The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.

The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.