If your mental health is sound, then when disturbances come, you will have some distress but quickly recover.

The more time you spend thinking about yourself, the more suffering you will experience.

You must not hate those who do harmful things. The compassionate thing is to do what you can to stop them--for they are harming themselves as well as those who suffer from their actions.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

Mankind's obsession with money and greed has them going down a one way street to their demise.

Human beings are special. We're creatures (we're not little gods), but we're also more than creatures. In fact, we're the most wonderful creatures in the world next to God.

Wringin' your hands only stops you from rollin' up your sleeves.

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

If you’ve got to think about it you probably shouldn’t do it

Behind me the world, ahead of me my world.

It is not necessary to bury the truth. It is sufficient merely to delay it until nobody cares.

I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend, And all the rest, though fair and wise, commend, To cold oblivion.

The Scots are the backbone of Canada. They are all right in their three vital parts - head, heart and haggis.