Listening is love in action.

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

Don't spend your precious time asking "Why isn't the world a better place?" It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is "How can I make it better?" To that there is an answer.

Love yourself-accept yourself-forgive yourself-and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things.

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.

Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating!

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.

I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.

Everybody needs a hug. It changes your metabolism.

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

...There are too many idiots in this world. And having said it, I have the burden of proving it.

Be fearless. Write what you want. Write how you want. Create art.

It is not wise to think of people as either friends or enemies as if you were the center of the universe

Woman was God's second mistake.

Where good and ill together blent, Wage an undying strife.

To live creatively free, do what you know how to do now, then 'act as if' you know how to do the rest.

I have come to know a God of compassion and mercy and love.

There is no singing anymore, everything is yelling and shouting and rapping and that is real boring to a guy like me.

Your time on this earth is limited, don’t live someone else's life, live by your vision.

The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them, they cannot love us.