I am not promoting Buddhism. I am promoting human values.

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.

To become a better you, work in a team of like-minded people and learn new things you don’t know.

What good is the present if you cannot change the future?

Sachin has infinite capacity for taking pains and still making runs.

Mandelstam was an artistic genius, the sort that any century produces only a handful of.

I'm not running for office. I don't have to be politically correct. I don't have to be a nice person. Like I watch some of these weak-kneed politicians, it's disgusting. I don't have to be that way.

Maybe it's just me but I would suspect that a man trying to impress a woman would be more likely to bring out the steak - "I killed this for you, now I'm grilling it for you."

Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror.

I love road trips. You get into this Zen rhythm; throw sense of time out the window.

The average woman loses a half million dollars over a lifetime, but women with higher degrees lose $2 million over a lifetime.

Authors and artists are still afraid of breaking away as far as [William Burroughs] did... And he did it in the 50s!