My message is that happiness is the first principle of life. But you must choose it. We all have pain, but suffering is a choice. You can be happier if you make some changes in your life.

Slow down. Calm down. Don't worry. Don't hurry. Trust the process.

This may shock you, but the most important person in your life is you. You are meant to be 'full of yourself.

Finding your personal style is a rich journey of discovery, wonder, adventure, and excitement.

The world is extremely interesting to a joyful soul.

The correct word is like any small detail - it enhances life.

Living well is a courageous act.

Don't try to prove anything about yourself to anyone. It isn't necessary. Your worth shines through to others- know your worth.

Puttering is really a time to be alone, to dream, to get in touch with yourself...To putter is to discover.

You don't have to prove anything to anyone.

Always remember your brilliance.

She brushed the tears from their faces and sang them a melancholy lullaby. Her obvious devotion to her daughters pulled at my heart strings, making my chest ache with longing for my own mother.

So lively brisk old fellow don't let age get you down. White hairs or not you can still be a lover.

Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times you don't want to set him down as a failure until he's dead or loses his courage - and that's the same thing.

Persian social manners are well known, and there is no other society that can compete with them.

The muses crown virtue when fortune refuses to do it.

How does it come about that what an intelligent man expresses is much stupider than what remains inside him?

You are affluent when you buy what you want, do what you wish and don't give a thought to what it costs.

We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.

The church is so big on law but not on the love.

Don't bother me while I'm eating, or when I'm coming out of the crackhouse or something. Just let me get going.