Beyond reasonable doubt, the each of us possesses unique gifts, amazing abilities to help heal the world if we so choose.

Whatever it is that may be bothering you, whatever it is that may have your attention arrested, you have the power to rescue yourself.

I wasn't made with wings so I could fly away. So here I stand, fighting for a brighter day. That fight begins with me.

Yesterday is a closed door. Tomorrow is the opening of a new one. What are you doing to seize the moment?

In all of our battles, let's roar with the conquering powers of love and determination.

Programmed in self-hatred, many of us shadow-box the light of day away and chase everything meaningless the night through until we perish more ignorant and confused than the very day we were born.

Mountains are moved when we choose positivity, when we choose to exert the power of love, when we chip away at our problems 1 day at a time.

As human beings we can't stop the flow of time, but we can choose to do something constructive with the time that we have.

Only people of a certain disposition are frightened of being alone for the rest of their lives at twenty-six

The rain fell like dead bullets.

I adopt a very simple approach. I observe and reflect real life and ordinary people and sooner or later that raises a laugh.

My dad was a Methodist minister.

Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.

It is the energy projected by an individual's own mind which creates his experience.

The true friend of truth and good loves them under all forms, but he loves them most under the most simple form.

The high stage of world-industrial development in capitalistic production finds expression in the extraordinary technical development and destructiveness of the instruments of war.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

As an impoverished student I used to spend days out in Selfridges, nibbling on samples of free cheese and dousing myself with scent in the perfume department.