Even a small act of compassion grants meaning and purpose to our lives.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy-Dalai Lama

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.

There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do and mostly Live.

Don't ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness for weakness. Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.

Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.

Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.

Here now in his triumph where all things falter, Stretched out on the spoils that his own hand spread, As a god self-slain on his own strange altar, Death lies dead.

Life's changes creates confidence!

Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose.

He was extremely reticent in his religious sentiments, at least in all that he wrote. Allusions to his belief are rarely, if ever, to be met with in his correspondence.

Everybody out there is just doing things for themesleves. So if you don't do that you've got to be crazy ... crazy about selfless giving!

Bob Scarpelli [of DDB] has told me I'd rot in hell for the commercials I've done, but I think he's kidding.

The disconnect lasted too long. I think people got the idea I was sullen and couldn't communicate, which wasn't true.

Talent may frolic and juggle; genius realizes and adds.

I'm someone who thinks that where there's a void, I need to fill it, but I'm trying to have patience and a little bit of discipline.

When freedom is outlawed, only outlaws will be free.