I have never read, heard or seen hatred and guilt win a fight. When we walk in the light of forgiveness and love we meet true victory.

Happy is the soul that has a friend. Happier is the soul that trusts in the truth of the heart of a friend. Happiest is the soul that knows the solemnity of friendship and honours its laws.

To be happy, you have to risk being unhappy.

Like love, like talent, like any other virtue, like anything else in this life, happiness needs to be nurtured - this is the truth of the whole matter.

The face of a truly happy man seldom lacks smiles.

Always be happy, you never know how happy you can make another by just being happy.

Happiness springs up from within. Do not seek it without.

It is better to hope less than to be hopeless.

Where would we have been without the discoveries of our predecessors, and where are we going without your discoveries?

Knowing trees, I came to realize, understand and appreciate the act of patience.

If your failure is not a lesson, it's indeed a failure.

My face is rather like a collision waiting to happen: head-on I can be borne, but turn sideways, and it is all calamity.

The universe is made up of stories not of atoms.

You're right on the money with that. We're all like detectives in life. There's something at the end of the trail that we're all looking for.

To trust agents, hyperlinks are the twenty-first-century equivalent of the name-dropper.

When someone gradually leaves your life, that's one thing because you get used to the end of it. When somebody disappears, it takes all of your control away. It leaves you frantic.

The illiteracy level of our children are appalling.

God existed before He made anything else, and He Himself was never made. God is eternal.

The sand stretched out gray and ghostlike and illuminated, a column of light leading forward. It was like something a dead person would see, a tunnel leading toward heaven.

The mind is not, I know, a highway, but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.

In doubt if an action is just, abstain.