It doesn't matter if a cave has been in darkness for 10,000 years or half an hour, once you light a match it is illuminated.

If you want to be sad, no one in the world can make you happy. But if you make up your mind to be happy, no one and nothing on earth can take that happiness from you.

Change yourself and you have done your part in changing the world

Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself.

I am a spark from the Infinite. I am not flesh and bones. I am light.

Be kind to others, so that you may learn the secret art of being kind to yourself.

No one appears on our stage unless the director has placed them there for our benefit

It is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering.

Be honest with yourself. The world is not honest with you. The world loves hypocrisy. When you are honest with yourself you find the road to inner peace.

Having lots of money while not having inner peace is like dying of thirst while bathing in the ocean.

Meet everybody and every circumstance on the battlefield of life with the courage of a hero and the smile of a conqueror.

If the pocket goes dry but the mind is fertile, awake and plant something noble in the mind and you shall surely reap something noble in the end, no matter what!

If you live long enough the venerability factor creeps in you get accused of things you never did and praised for virtues you never had.

I focus on myself, that's how I beat Wladimir Klitschko.

When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.

What course am I to take?" "Towards danger; but not too rashly, nor too straight.

Set goals not for the outcome itself, but for who you get to become in the process.

All you have to do is believe, then you will see everything.

Let us put Germany, so to speak, in the saddle! you will see that she can ride.

Empty Cradle, Broken Heart is written with great awareness and sensitivity. Deborah Davis gets it just right.

But sir- we are a beginning democracy. If there were not strikes, this would not be a democracy.