Attachment constrains our vision so that we are not able to see things from a wider perspective.

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.

To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.

It's not about saving humanity. It never has been." Mantrella, THE WAKING GOD TRILOGY

What is needful is necessary.

When you remove the concept of reward and punishment on merit, the result is the utter destruction of social fabric.

We are suffering from a glut of too many 3-D movies and not enough screens.

There are real indignities and real problems when all facets of life are controlled –when to get up, to eat, to shower-and chemicals are put inside our bodies against our will.

It's a culture. It's - I mean, people obsess over this. And people create subcultures that identify - and there are people in the streets who will recognize certain patterns and signifiers.

Wit is that which has been often thought, but never before was well expressed.

I don't care how much evidence the state presented. I've never for one moment believed he murdered that waitress.

I wrote three books, I had three greenhouses. It seemed to me to be very satisfactory.