In politics, you also have to be cautiously optimistic.

You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right.

It is not power that corrupts but fear.

Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.

Every thought, every word, and every action that adds to the positive and the wholesome is a contribution to peace. Each and every one of us is capable of making such a contribution.

We will surely get to our destination if we join hands.

It is not a sacrifice, it's a choice. If you choose to do something, then you shouldn't say it's a sacrifice, because nobody forced you to do it

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear

By helping others, you will learn how to help yourselves.

I don't think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I'm just rather flexible and adaptable.

To be kind is to respond with sensitivity and human warmth to the hopes and needs of others. Even the briefest touch of kindness can lighten a heavy heart. Kindness can change the lives of people.

It struck him that the true characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its dinginess, its listlessness.

I really don't like plays or movies that service propaganda.

All the miles of a hard road are worth a moment of true happiness.

Trivial Pursuit means that you've got nothing going on in your life. Trivial Pursuit is more than a board game. It is the way most people live. Their lives are trivial pursuits.

I think the novel, its business is the investigation of human nature.

Your mental attitude is your motivation and your inspiration.

Learning is more effective when it is an active rather than a passive process.

I want to be a contemporary artist and at the same time a romantic!

There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften. [Lat., Nullus dolor est quem non longinquitas temporis minuat ac molliat.]

I'm a primate, you know? I need to be pro-social, like all of us; I need to be pro-social and affiliative. I need to sit at the campfire with other women.