Although attempting to bring about world peace through the internal transformation of individuals is difficult, it is the only way.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy-Dalai Lama

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.

There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do and mostly Live.

Don't ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness for weakness. Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.

Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.

Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.

She's clearly gone too long without male companionship if any brute who walked her way made her sit up and take notice.

Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.

I'm not prepared to make any multi-decade commitments.

Music has always felt very real to me.

When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not to be so factual as time marches on.

If we extend our senses, we will consequently extend our knowledge.

Sectors of power are not going to favor the flourishing of dissidence.

A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest.

There's no such thing as bad publicity.

Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.