Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.

Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.

When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.

Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival.

Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.

Often the Muse will not respond to direct and logical requests. She must be lured in with the playful and gentle.

There is nothing to be gained by being unnecessarily nasty. Violence begets violence.

We fear only what we haven’t understood.

There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink.

I like to write about things that are dark or twisted. Where the poetry seems to be is when you start in the dark and reach for the light - that's what makes it not depressing to me.

Why should we think that we wouldn't have a cross to carry? Are we somehow more deserving than our Lord?

Tolerance is a relatively weak virtue; we're called to so much more than that in the body of Christ.

I don't want to look like Connecticut, no offense, I don't want to look like Oklahoma, I don't want to look like California. I want to be uniquely Texas. And that's not to diss anybody else.

Love your country, not for her power or wealth, but for her selflessness and her idealism.

There are occasions on which all apology is rudeness.