Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON.

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy.

Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.

God much are the truly wealthy. So our inner happiness depends not on what we experience but on the degree of our gratitude to God, Gratitude — the Secret of Life.

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

When the door of opportunity of your storehouse opens for you, let faith and hope enter first. When your faith leads the way, you will locate the source of your hidden treasures.

In that moment I’m able to accept the inevitability of how I feel, though not with joy. I need to talk to someone. I need to trust someone. And for whatever reason, I know, I know it’s her.

I think the common experience is that modern shamans are called by the spirits

Something stirred beneath my skin, some being inside I'd only suspected existed, demon or angel, I couldn't say.

They never raised a statue to a critic.

I was always such a skinny kid, so I kind of grew up with an "I hate skinny" mentality.

Nothing is more injurious to the character and to the intellect than the suppression of a generous emotion.

What a wonderful time for women on television.

I could believe only in the hell I was living in, a hell on earth, and it was man-made, not God-made.

To make the future demands courage. It demands work. But it also demands faith.