Ideals are thoughts. So long as they exist merely as thoughts, the power in them remains ineffective.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON.

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy.

Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.

God much are the truly wealthy. So our inner happiness depends not on what we experience but on the degree of our gratitude to God, Gratitude — the Secret of Life.

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Now that I look back, I realize that a life predicated on being obedient is a very comfortable life indeed. Living in such a way reduces to a minimum one's own need to think.

A lie stands on one leg, truth on two.

Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vietnam.

The age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because I'm 19?

I'm always trying to be a good ambassador for my country.

The man born and bred a slave, even if freed, never loses wholly the feeling or manner of a slave.

I believe that children long for form just as grownups do, and that it releases rather than cramps creative energy.

The paradox of innovation is this: CEO's often complain about lack of innovation, while workers often say leaders are hostile to new ideas.

The Labor Party is a party of conviction. The Liberal Party is a party of convenience.

Theres something about most phobias where theres a tiny, tiny corner where you think this really actually could happen.