A day lived without doing something good for others is a day not worth living.

Peace begins with a smile..

Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life.

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.

If you judge people you have no time to love them.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless.

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.

The simplest way to Rejoice is to Count your Blessings and be grateful for them. You will automatically feel Joy in your Heart.

I think of marriage as a garden. You have to tend to it. Respect it, take care of it, feed it. Make sure everyone is getting the right amount of, um, sunlight.

I wake up so full of life and feeling so alive and so full of joy when I get to go to a set and tell a story. I just - I couldn't imagine not having that, and what a gift it's been in my life.

The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner's mind.

Our actions are neither so good nor so evil as our impulses.

There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry

I now know all shades of the color green, having spent 90 days staring at that green screen. I'll never forget that color, as long as I live.

No man who is correctly informed as to the past will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present.

It's the poignancy and sadness in things that gets to me.

We can become slaves to things we don't understand