It is the state of mind of the person wielding the instrument that determines to what end it will be put.

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.

I beg your pardon, " I said. "But you do intend to eat me?

You know, ” Naomi said, “if you’re looking at hundreds of people burning to death as a problem solving itself, that may be more evidence that you’re on wrong side.

Thousands upon thousands are yearly brought into a state of real poverty by their great anxiety not to be thought poor.

I still go to bed in mascara on the chance I'll be seen a lover.

With humor you have so many options with topics and length, I mean I can write humor essays in books now and they can be as long as I want them to be.

The end of lower art is to please, the end of average art is to raise the top, the end of superior art is to free.

Every child in America deserves high-quality health care.

When I call myself an affirmative action baby, I'm talking about the essence of what affirmative action was when it started.

When I go to the shore, I take along the poems of Pablo Neruda. I suppose it's because the poems are simultaneously lush and ripe and kind of lazy, yet throbbing with life - like summer itself.