Death is not complete annihilation. It is a pause. It is like pressing the pause button on a tape recorder.

Be like the honeybee who gathers only nectar wherever it goes. Seek the goodness that is found in everyone.

Most people are concerned only with what they can get from the world, but it is what we are able to give to others that determines the quality of our life

When humanity serves Nature, Nature serves humanity. When we serve animals and plants, they too serve us in return.

Make a firm decision: 'Whatever happens, I will be happy. I will be strong. God is always with me.'

Happiness depends on how you accept, understand and surrender to situations.

Learn to be thankful to everyone, to the entire creation, even to your enemy and also to those who insult, because they all help you to grow

Our attitude should be: Whatever happens I will remain strong, courageous and happy.

Whether we laugh or cry, the days are going to pass by. So why not choose to laugh?

Don't be discouraged by your incapacity to dispel darkness from the world. Light your little candle and step forward.

Those that have an attitude of service towards others are the beauty of society.

People will not remember what you did for living, they will remember how you touched them with kindness and loving.

Then we shan’t regard anyone as a lover of knowledge or wisdom who is fussy about what he studies…

A financial plan is a way to take all of the money advice you come across and figure out how it applies to your specific financial situation.

Whatever you say, say nothing.

That is not quite enough to make one happy, if one spends eight hours a day in something which in itself has no meaning and interest, except that one gains money from it.

You are the only thing I have that is neither duty nor obligation, the only thing I chose for myself. The only thing I want.

I don't think there is a single sentence in this whole book [East of Eden] that does not either develop character, carry on the story or provide necessary background.

That is the first thing I know for sure: (1.) If the questions don't make sense, neither will the answers.

A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificant by and by.

I go the VA Hospital when I have a problem and the doctor jumps on me.