Everybody needs a hug. It changes your metabolism.

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

Don't spend your precious time asking "Why isn't the world a better place?" It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is "How can I make it better?" To that there is an answer.

Love yourself-accept yourself-forgive yourself-and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things.

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.

Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating!

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.

I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch.

Find your own joy within and then greater joy will be added to you.

A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale.

The town, the team, it's a family. That has helped. For some people who have had to deal with some of the problems I have had to deal with don't have football as an out.

Love is to the soul of him who loves, what the soul is to the body which it animates.

Annihilation itself is no death to evil. Only good where evil was, is evil dead. An evil thing must live with its evil until it chooses to be good. That alone is the slaying of evil.

Too many people are hungry not because there is dearth of food. It is because there is dearth of love and care in human hearts.

I don't think people believe that any more, I don't think people think that it really matters whether you appreciate Henry James more than Theodore Dreiser.

My childhood was very colourful, and I am very good friends with both my parents. We have no secrets.

If you can't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?

Thy words, I grant are bigger, for I wear not, my dagger in my mouth.