No one is too poor to give a smile - a gift, often, of greater consequence than any sum of money.

Once trust is built, distance cannot kill it. Time and space alone cannot destroy authentic connection.

The history of your happiness is the history of your feeling connected.

To know yourself, you must first sacrifice the illusion that already you do.

A soul mate is not found. A soul mate is recognized.

Only love that continues to flow in the face of anger, blame, and indifference can be called love. All else is simply a transaction.

If you do not respect your own wishes, no one else will. You will simply attract people who disrespect you as much as you do.

The important thing is for me to feel love towards my fellow human beings—and sometimes, that has to be at a distance.

Self-love is essential. Until you can learn how to feel loved in an empty room, you will not feel loved for very long in any other room.

There is no quick fix-all procedure to heal your insecurities. Like any relationship, the relationship with yourself must be built and re-built one kind, loving conversation at a time.

Have the courage to love yourself like you always wished someone would.

Failure gives you the experience and the wisdom to be a success in the future.

The most important thing in our lives is what we are doing now.

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

We, on our side, are praying to Him to give us victory, because we believe we are right; but those on the other side pray to Him, look for victory, believing they are right. What must He think of us?

Taste is a result of a thousand distastes.

We have to bring communities together in order to begin working on that as a mutual goal.

I strongly believe that for serious and violent criminals, we must absolutely hold them accountable for their crimes and send them to prison.

The world's big things only can be done by paying attention to their humble beginnings.

You know he can’t save you, right? In the real world? That guy, right there.

We will not cut one penny from the safety net until we've cut every penny from corporate welfare.