Every man is the conscious or unconscious author of his state.

Happy is the soul that has a friend. Happier is the soul that trusts in the truth of the heart of a friend. Happiest is the soul that knows the solemnity of friendship and honours its laws.

To be happy, you have to risk being unhappy.

Like love, like talent, like any other virtue, like anything else in this life, happiness needs to be nurtured - this is the truth of the whole matter.

The face of a truly happy man seldom lacks smiles.

Always be happy, you never know how happy you can make another by just being happy.

Happiness springs up from within. Do not seek it without.

It is better to hope less than to be hopeless.

Where would we have been without the discoveries of our predecessors, and where are we going without your discoveries?

Knowing trees, I came to realize, understand and appreciate the act of patience.

If your failure is not a lesson, it's indeed a failure.

I wonder how it is we have come to this place in our society where art and nature are spoke in terms of what is optional, the pastime and concern of the elite?

Giving is normal and anybody can give but to sacrifice during giving is the matter!

My mother is Ukrainian. She immigrated to the U.S. from Canada as a child.

The family we choose for ourselves is more important than the one we were born into; that people have to earn our respect and trust, not have it handed to them simply because of genetics.

Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it.

I came in the league as not a shooter, not a scorer. My game was to play defense and make my teammates better. The most important stat to me was that left column - winning. Nothing else matters.

A stomach without bread and a purse without gold have led to so many revolutions in history.

That's what I've decided I am. A seeker of wisdom and truth.

I don't need to be rich anymore; I don't need to be a millionaire.

Debt and revolution are inseparable as cause and effect.