Emotions of the sould should be watched, regulary examined, and kept well balanced.

What we get from each moment depends on the attention we give it, and the quality of our experience reflects the quality of our awareness.

There is nothing selfish about enjoying yourself. In fact, as wise people have long said and psychologists have since discovered, happiness makes people less self-focused and more altruistic.

Most people are grateful because they are happy. Wise people are happy because they're grateful.

Never let the sun go down upon your anger.

Our task and challenge as human beings is to appreciate, in the same instant, both the infinite significance and absolute insignificance of life.

Searching for what's beyond appearances opens our divine eyes to see the concealed facts in experience.

Ronan cupped her neck with his other hand and brushed his lips lightly over hers. "I want you, Maddy. I want you more than I've ever wanted any woman in my life.

I love getting on the subway because you get on the car, and you see the entire human race represented in any given subway car.

You're a writer. Make it up.

Are you learning me by heart, little Sara?" he said, stroking her hair. "No," she answered. "I know you by heart. You are inside my heart.

A lot of people were opposed to it. A lot of people were for it. I myself think about it as little as possible.

When you're on the road, you sort of go crazy and being away from your family you get stir-crazy and lonely, so I try to keep myself involved as much as possible.

We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal.

The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.