Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.

Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because the regret is stronger than gratitude.

What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven't even happened yet.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

Whoever is happy will make others happy.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices. Then our choices make us.

You can always give something, even if it is only kindness.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness.

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!

This is one reason people need to believe in God—because we want someone to know us, truly, all the way through, even the worst of us.

When you are like the tree, there is oneness with the Earth, Sun and Moon, but still steadfast in your purpose.

When you are discouraged, do not look down. Hold your head up high and you will see the face of God shining a light into your dark place.

We don't love a woman for what she says but we like what she says because we love her.

And the thing that I always tried to do with important singers when I met them was to sit down and record everything they knew, give them a first real run-through of their art.

A man by himself is in bad company.

We do a lot of looking: we look through lenses, telescopes, television tubes... Our looking is perfected every day, but we see less and less.

Normally, we push away the things we're scared of.

It is one of those quirks of human nature that you love the person whom you treat well, not necessarily the person who treats you well.

The bigger your head, the easier to fill your shoes.