In the final analysis, the hope of every person is simply peace of mind.

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.

Again, I've missed you by a minute

I'm still trying to defog the bathroom mirror to see the dream for what it clearly is.

For Tim Burton's birthday I gave him a rainbow beetle. He loved it!

I feel overwhelmingly grateful to them, but I don't know what to do with their invisible gifts.

Compassion makes no distinction between friends and enemies, neighbors and outsiders, compatriots and foreigners. Compassion is the gate to human community.

Whatever doubts or vexations one has in Japan, it is only necessary to ask one's self: "Well, who are the best people to live with?

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.

Past has a very great superiority over the future: The future may not exist; but the past existed!

I think this is what real love is like.. Wanting to be together as they grow older.

I've never been noticeably reticent about talking on subjects about which I know nothing.