I get annoyed with movies or books, songs or records that deliberately try to make you feel a certain way.

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.

Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work.

Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.

Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” —

Three enemies of personal peace: regret over yesterday’s mistakes, anxiety over tomorrow’s problems, and ingratitude for today’s blessings.

Christ attained the ultimate spiritual oneness through prayer and devotion, Moses and Mohammed through prayer, Buddha and all the Indian sages through intense meditation and so did I. And so can you.

Logic and reason are the naphthalene balls we use to pack them away into a sandook called 'Someday'. But when that day comes we are too old, too poor, too tired or too lazy.

It doesn't hurt. Nothing hurts except the small smiles and blushes that flash across the room like tiny sparrows.

It is essential to the triumph of reform that it shall never succeed.

There, in the depths of sleep, is the communion of the living and the dead.

Innovation keeps me ahead of my competition. It means that my foes must adapt to me, not the other way around.

Pay as much attention to the things that are working positively in your life as you do to the things that give you trouble.

The loss of our illusions is the only loss from which we never recover.

The second album is the hardest to write. Its nothing like the first album.

I had just settled Grandma on her folding chair and popped open our box lunch when the corpse floated by.