Every man is the craftsman of his future, whether he hone it himself or allow fate do it.

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.

The person of creatures is living, the purpose of living is service, a service that implants legacy.

One good product is better than many fake goods.

Everything in life has its price, and often the heaviest prices we pay are not in terms of money.

Time is that which man is always trying to kill but which ends in killing him.

My friend was on dialysis for six years before he got a new kidney. I was on dialysis for eight months. I'm almost not even the typical person who has kidney failure.

The true self is always in motion like music, a river of life, changing, moving, failing, suffering, learning, shining.

Any love that is love is right.

A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to all things.

Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.

That some are poorer than others, ever was and ever will be: And that many are naturally querulous and envious, is an Evil as old as the World.