Human use, population, and technology have reached that certain stage where mother Earth no longer accepts our presence with silence.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy-Dalai Lama

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.

There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do and mostly Live.

Don't ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness for weakness. Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.

Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.

Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.

And Death spoke to them —’”“Sorry, ” interjected Harry, “but Death spoke to them?”“It’s a fairy tale, Harry!”“Right, sorry. Go on.

You rang my heart like a church bell at midnight. Trembling, I awoke to the sweet sound of love.

You can’t win without being patient. You know why? Success comes when you value time by using it profitably. It comes over time

Fred’s vacuum-rated armor protected him from the smell of viscera, but it reported it to him as a slight increase in atmospheric methane levels. The stench of death reduced to a data point.

When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.

It looks like you can write a minimalist piece without much bleeding. And you can. But not a good one.

I been trying to clean up my act with my children for a long time. And I pretty much got them all talking to me now. And they accept me as a humanoid again.

There is no way in my right mind I would contemplate running 26 miles-plus unless it involved a chase with Pamela Anderson.

Why is the awfulness of families such a popular reason for starting another?

I see God in the instruments and the mechanisms that work reliably, more reliably than the limited sensory departments of the human mechanism.