Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively.

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.

The sky is falling. The sky is falling.And I fear you won’t believe it until you’re covered in stars

Faith is the flower that unfolds its own beauty without knowing how it will fulfill life's duty.

The reward is found in the work.

Instinct is like Nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation.

I simply don't accept losing well. I just feel whatever it takes to win, you have to do it.

Much of the possibility of being cheerful comes from the faculty of throwing oneself beyond oneself.

In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays.

As soon as I read the script for Hannah Montana, I knew it kinda related to me. I wanted to disguise myself as not some celebrity's daughter, just be me and find people that like me for me.

I want to do something creative, not just easy.

You don't build a business --you build people-- and then people build the business.