Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy, peacefulness and power to forgive.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON.

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy.

Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.

God much are the truly wealthy. So our inner happiness depends not on what we experience but on the degree of our gratitude to God, Gratitude — the Secret of Life.

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Change occurs when excuses pivot to execution.

... but I believe that music can change a life, because it changed mine.

A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services.

The American people need to know the truth. The American people need to see the truth. In a democracy, letting the people know the truth is the essence of what it means to be free.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

Get the hell out of my way!

It is proper to ask for sorrow with Christ in sorrow, anguish with Christ in anguish, tears and deep grief because of the great affliction Christ endures for me.

God has given each of us our "marching order." Our purpose here on Earth is to find those orders and carry them out. Those orders acknowledge our special gifts.

We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.

And the process of reading is such a private one. I once came into a room where a friend of mine was reading one of my books, and he clicked his tongue impatiently and shooed me off.