Although you may not always be able to avoid difficult situations,you can modify the extent to which you can suffer by how you choose to respond to the situation.

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.

The grace to read the Holy Bible is the strength of being.

There are people who can achieve huge success in life, while adding a bit of fun and a splash of colour to this increasingly grey world.

I always want to be an actress.

But we've got to work. We can't just live on reputations at all - by any means.

Someone came too sooner.

Anywhere I can ski in the morning and sell a movie in the afternoon is good.

We are seeing healing among the stolen generations, and initiatives which are enabling Indigenous people to make their distinctive contribution to our national life.

There's nothing heroic about suicide bombers. They're mostly just dumb, brainwashed kids, stoned out of their minds.

For solving a surprisingly large and varied number of problems, crowds are smarter than individuals.

Science should be taught not in order to support religion and not in order to destroy religion. Science should be taught simply ignoring religion.