Change is the end result of all true learning.

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

Don't spend your precious time asking "Why isn't the world a better place?" It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is "How can I make it better?" To that there is an answer.

Love yourself-accept yourself-forgive yourself-and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things.

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.

Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating!

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.

I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.

Everybody needs a hug. It changes your metabolism.

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Hi! My little hutIs newly-thatched I see...Blue morning-glories

If a girl thinks she isn't beautiful, I'm here to prove her wrong.

If the choice is between two evils, it is still evil,

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

We must all hear the universal call to like your neighbor just like you like to be liked yourself.

It's fascinating to imagine two successful writers in one house. But when you think about it, it isn't very unusual. In fact, so many writers have writer spouses.

When you get to the 35-year mark in your career, you make albums for your fans to love you more, so they don't forget about you.

I used to feel competitive about a career, but now the only things I'm really passionate about are my family, the environment and Indians.

One slip. One slip in thousands. The odds had been entirely in her favor. But it hadn't mattered.

Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; Oh life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs.