It is maybe not the best choice to have a favorite anything.

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.

Cooperation is an intelligent functioning of the concept of laissez faire-a thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there.

We must not wish anything other than what happens from moment to moment, all the while, however, exercising ourselves in goodness.

Sin spoils the spirit's delicacy, and unwillingness deadens its susceptibility.

I want to write something that makes it easy for young people to look right into the abyss.

I think that the great part of creativity is overcoming fear. Fear is a given. When you sit down and have to begin something, don't be afraid to be filled with fear, because it goes with the turf.

The signal is the truth. The noise is what distracts us from the truth.

I won't call myself a failure. Failure is not getting knocked down. It's not getting up.

How I would describe my characters is absolutely different from how I would describe myself.

I'm the mayor, I can do whatever I want until the courts tell me I can't.'

Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart.