If you focus only on yourself and neglect others, you will lose; but you will gain if you value others as much as you cherish yourself.

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.

Isn't it time for you to free yourself from your past in order to enjoy the beauty of the present?

He could deal with his guilt all by himself. Guilt didn't add up to love, an emotion she was done with forever.

It seems to me that election season is just a Petri dish for anger and cynicism.

I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly.

Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir, Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine, With a cargo of ivory, And apes and peacocks, Sandalwood, cedarwood, and sweet white wine.

Sometimes a person's monstrosity seems superhuman.

Political utopias are a form of nostalgia for an imagined past projected onto the future as a wish.

With soap, baptism is a good thing.

If we love the sea as much as we claim to we'll do everything we possibly can to keep it healthy. Otherwise we might as well take up golf.

Who feels injustice, who shrinks before a slight, who has a sense of wrong so acute, and so glowing a gratitude for kindness, as a generous boy?