Awareness of death is the very bedrock of the entire path. Until you have developed this awareness, all other practices are obstructed.

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.

Following a spiritual path doesn't mean we won't feel emotional pain. But faith gives us the grace and the courage to get through it and the knowing that we will heal and be a better person for it.

You don't have to suffer to be a poet adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

Telling some stories, Miss Leroy says, is committing suicide.

I've learned over a period of years there are setbacks when you come up against the immovable object; sometimes the object doesn't move.

If this is a Great Society, I'd hate to see a bad one.

Women are good for only one thing - lying on their backs.

War is a foolish, childish, animalistic, unthinking, unintelligent way of trying to accomplish a purpose.

Football is about having the best offensive play possible. I always like to play offensive football, and nobody will convince me otherwise.

In the beginning there was the word. The word was Jah. The word is in I, Jah is in I. I make what is good, better, and what is better, best. I follow this in every aspect of life.

Too many people are too lazy to think. Instead of learning something new, they think the same thought day in day out.