Sometimes kindness can be delivered in a clumsy way.
True love can alter human lives and change human nature.
Often small acts of service are all that is required to lift and bless another: a question concerning a person's family, quick words of encouragement, a sincere compliment, a small note of thanks, a brief telephone call. If we are observant and aware, and if we act on the promptings which come to us, we can accomplish much good.
Your mind is a cupboard and you stock the shelves.
Often we live side by side but do not communicate heart to heart.
When we deal in generalities, we shall never succeed. When we deal in specifics, we shall rarely have a failure. When performance is measured, performance improves. When performance is measured and reported, the rate of performance accelerates.
In the temple we can find peace. The blessings of the temple are priceless.
Germany and other countries have protested to the U. S. We have to make it clear again and again that millions of jobs in the U. S. depend on trade with the EU.
It's not that I don't believe in creativity and innovation and new ideas, and the creativity that comes with fashion, which I really respect. But one of my biggest concerns is just how cheap we expect everything to be.
I think I would always tell school kids that, you know, they'd say, "When did you get interested in politics?" I said, "Just very young. " Maybe it was because President [J. F. ] Kennedy was the first Irish-Catholic president. "
Well, we're all a little hostile every now and then, some of us are able to sublimate, others of us can't adjust. You know how it is.