Listen to other people tell their story, but don't believe them. You know that it's just a story that is only true for them, but listen because the communication can be wonderful.

When we respect everybody around us, we are in peace with everybody around us.

People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies.

When we believe in lies, we cannot see the truth, so we make thousands of assumptions and we take them as truth. One of the biggest assumptions we make is that the lies we believe are the truth!

Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.

Every human is an artist. And this is the main art that we have: the creation of our story.

Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.

Respect is one of the greatest expressions of love.

Love is unknown. To open the heart in trust is unknown. They say love hurts. It doesn't have to.

Death is not the biggest fear we have our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are.

We never stop to consider that our beliefs are only a relative truth that's always going to be distorted by all the knowledge we have stored in our memory.

Happy is still Happy, with or without the Ever After.

Anything is possible on a train: a great meal, a binge, a visit from card players, an intrigue, a good night's sleep, and strangers' monologues framed like Russian short stories.

The door to success may be a few steps away but you still have to walktowards it.

Life isn't fair," he said, in his undisguised voice, and for once the Baudelaire orphans agreed with every word the man said.

Poetry -- even bad poetry -- may be our final hope.

Adversity can strengthen us if it does not go on too long.

If tomorrow will be the end of the world, I will spend my today by looking at the pictures of my past!

But my middle daughter, Kate, is very involved in martial arts, and I was just at one of her competitions.

Who knows what part we play in other people's dreams?

You have to see every potential roadblock as an opportunity and a benefit.