Avoiding pain causes endless suffering for you and others. Avoiding pain is really selfishness.

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.

The best way to waste your life, is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don't participate.

You are my brother. You are my sister. We are one human family.

Here is how you know if it is love or lust. Push them in front of a bus. If you jump in the way and save them it is love.

But miracles do happen, every shining now and then. If not now, if not now, tell me when. From "If Not Now

Peace is the music of every heart. Our glory lies in understanding, listening and honoring that music.

Christianity makes of life a moral drama in which we play a starring role and in which the most ordinary events take on a grand significance.

Most people don't care much about enlightenment and the truth. They'd rather watch the Home Shopping Network, and maybe that's another kind of truth.

Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers.

Embrace a mistake and learn from it; don't regret them.

Order or disorder depends on organisation and direction; courage or cowardice on circumstances; strength or weakness on tactical dispositions.