Altruism is the best source of happiness. There is no doubt about that.

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.

Memory is curated. All this paraphernalia you collect to ward off forgetting

I should know better than anyone--you can't tell who a person is just from his looks.

Excess has impaired perspective in America.

A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.

If religion does not make us better people, it will make us very much worse. And of all the bad men who have lived, the religious "bad man" is the worst of all.

We have seen the Democrat solution to an energy crisis; it's called California.

Does choice exist when I see something very clearly?

Thus strangely are our souls constructed, and by slight ligaments are we bound to prosperity and ruin.

I don't set goals for myself too much, but I'm always trying to write that one great song.

War is horrible, but slavery is worse.