As long as you are waiting for something to make you happy — happiness will never come.

You cannot save everyone. Some people are going to destroy themselves no matter how much you try to help them.

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.

Every positive thought is a silent prayer which will change your life.

Your intelligence is a fire that can illuminate any darkness. Awaken and let your mind burn so brightly! You are alive for a reason!

You cannot save people from themselves. All you can do is stand firmly in your hopes for them, with compassion.

When the storm rips you to pieces, you get to decide how to put yourself back together again.

Some people are so addicted to their misery that they will destroy anything that gets in the way of their fix.

Your health is a long-range investment that will pay-off when you need it most.

If you are really humble you will put yourself first when you need to take care of you.

By choosing positivity you become a contender for the human spirit giving hope to those in need.

One possibility is: God is nothing but the power of the universe to organize itself.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

What we call our data are really our own constructions of other people’s constructions of what they and their compatriots are up to.

Superstition is rooted in a much deeper and more sensitive layer of the psyche than skepticism.

Christianity is a fine religion and I wish more Christians practiced it.

I forget whether advice be among the lost things which Ariosto says are to be found in the moon: that and time ought to have been there.

Every single one of us is the descendant of a go-getter. Of dreamers and of believers.

Whatever device you use, Windows will be there. Windows will be everywhere on every device without compromise.

If world leaders decide to [meet the Millennium Development Goals], I think it can be done by 2015...The question is, is there a political will to make this investment?

I think I'm really lucky that the things I'm able to love - people, animals - it's like the more you put yourself into it, the more you get out of it.