Happiness depends on what you can give, not on what you can get.

Silently hear everyone. Accept what is good. Reject and forget what is not. This is intelligent living.

Don't put the key to your happiness in someone else's pocket

Children are not vessels to be filled but lamps to be lit.

Leave aside your regrets of the past and anxieties of the future And focus intelligently on the present. This is the best way of ensuring a positive future.

Man can change his destiny-not by wishing for it, but by working for it.

To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness.

Expose yourself to aloneness. When a person is left alone, he starts thinking of higher reality - about death, life, soul, God and the mystery of all.

The Present is the womb of the future. A greater future happiness can be had only by investing in the present correctly. Look after the present and the future will look after itself.

Love is a consistent passion to give, not a meek persistent hope to receive. The only demand of life is the privilege to love all.

What we have is a gift from Him. What we do with what we have is our gift to him

When you are socially aware, you will realize whether you are forcing yourself into a conversation or have actually been invited to participate.

It wasn't until I worked in the Perth Hospital kitchen in the 1970s that I began hearing stories about the ghosts that haunted their halls at night.

You can never tell about a person by guessing...that's why language was invented. Otherwise, we'd all be like dogs, sniffing each other to find out where we stood.

The business man who gains success at the expense of the poor and miserable gains nil respect from his peers.

There is no way around the contradictions and dangers inherent in Israel's decision to free over 1,000 prisoners in order to liberate Gilad Shalit.

There are an infinity of angles at which one falls, only one at which one stands.

Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us and many of us much worse.

The defense of our rights and our dignity, as well as efforts never to let ourselves to be overcome by the feeling of hatred - this is the road we have chosen.

You don't have freedom unless you have the freedom to do stupid self-destructive things.

Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of American citizenship.