If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

Don't spend your precious time asking "Why isn't the world a better place?" It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is "How can I make it better?" To that there is an answer.

Love yourself-accept yourself-forgive yourself-and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things.

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.

Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating!

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.

I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.

Everybody needs a hug. It changes your metabolism.

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

It was pleasant to think that men still sang, even in the midst of butchery and famine.

Hope: Hold on, persistence effort!

The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.

Put your trust in the Lord and go ahead. Worry gets you no place.

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

A bitter thing cannot be made sweet. The taste of anything can be changed. But poison cannot be changed into nectar

Fame introduced me to a world of instant gratification and decadence I hadn't seen before.

For me, all drama is based on conflict.

Lust should be stifled, for it cannot lead to truth.

For gin, in cruel sober truth, supplies the fuel for flaming youth.