Because I have confidence in the power of truth, and of the spirit, I have confidence in the future of mankind.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON.

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy.

Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.

God much are the truly wealthy. So our inner happiness depends not on what we experience but on the degree of our gratitude to God, Gratitude — the Secret of Life.

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

We are all small-minded people, creeping about the earth grubbing for our own advantage and making the very mistakes for which we want to humiliate our neighbors.

There will come a time when everybody will know why, for what purpose, there is all this suffering, and there will be no more mysteries. But now we must live ... we must work, just work!

The author says the mark of a true rest your creature is an inability to be still without a kind of resignation.

You weren't using the moon for anything. Only some long-term robot storage.

I'm lucky, I don't like sweets, not even chocolate.

I don't have the Tom Hanks fans. When you make the kind of movies I make, you get weird letters from people.

Life moved ever outward into infinite possibilities and yet all things were perfect and finished in every single moment, their end attained.

Women want the fairytale. Not all women, of course, but most women grow up dreaming about the kind of man who would risk everything for them, even knowing they might get hurt.

Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more.

If you don't go towards the thing you fear, you won't be able to say you lived.