It is worth remembering that the time of greatest gain in terms of wisdom and inner strength is often that of greatest difficulty.

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.

...the best definition that I heard of that is that a bureaucrat is a Democrat who has a job that a Republican wants.

Avoid the traffic by using one of the park's shuttle buses and view the elk rut with a park ranger.

I'm kind of a comic book geek, but I'm not really a super hero comic book geek.

Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with reason and justice.

Grief loves the hollow; all it wants is to hear its own echo.

I see only the ideal. But no ideals have ever been fully successful on this earth.

I am not ashamed to say that I am the son of a washerwoman.

Well I was on the one hand, the more I played the guitar the more I began to really love the guitar and to love virtually any kind of music that anybody played well on guitar.

Anti-Tax fetishist Grover Norquist owns a bust of Ronald Reagan, who raised taxes 11 times.

Anything you do fearless, you do in mediocrity.