It's over, and can't be helped, and that's one consolation, as they always say in Turkey, when they cut the wrong man's head off.

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.

The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.

A very little key will open a very heavy door.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Your actions prove you efficiency and your lip service proves your inability.

Nothing has to be funny. Sometimes I just laugh to heal my soul.

Treasure the journey, BE the destination.

So let us call genocide, genocide. Let us not minimize the deliberate murder of 1.5 million people. Let us have a moral victory that can shine as a light to all nations.

They are raised on high that they may be dashed to pieces with a greater fall.

There are things that can only happen through you when you are still. Silence is often the most important work you can do.

When I'm writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we feel, how we lose and stand up, and go on from darkness into darkness.

Songwriters can’t explain. You get an idea and you don’t know where it’s come from. And if you’re lucky, you have a pencil or pen and can write it down.

Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect.

God is not someone or something separate but is the suchness in each moment, the underlying reality.