Not money, not fame and not positions can transform an enemy into a friend but rather, it is love that can do such a job.

If you are someone who dislikes, condemns and rejects new ideas, you aren’t fit to lead.

You can’t shower happiness on others without getting few drops back on yourself.

You can’t afford to limit your joy. It has been proven several times that angry people are never happy people.

Anyone who wants to prevent you from making other people happy is an enemy. If you are stopping yourself from making others happy, you are your own enemy.

You put your own joy in prison if you work hard to make other people’s happiness suffocate.

Do what you can with all love and passion irrespective of whether it pays you well or not. Joy in the result lives longer than the joy in the reward.

The essence of one life is empowering another life, and so your passion has to be linked to the liberation of other people’s happiness.

Hatred is a burden that can hunt you day by day, robbing you off your personal joy in broad day light.

Haters can never rejoice especially when their enemy wins. The moment you can’t be happy when someone wins, watch yourself. That habit is not good for you.

Sometimes, people don’t need our monies and our treasures. All they need is our encouragements to give them hope.

Plato offers the amazing idea that contemplation of the way things really are is, in itself, a purifying process that can bring human beings into the only divinity there is.

In a State, pecuniary gain is not to be considered to be prosperity, but its prosperity will be found in righteousness.

Never stop because you are afraid - you are never so likely to be wrong.

It's about doing it in a way that it can't be done any better. That is the goal every day.

If you would write emotionally, be first unemotional. If you would move your readers to tears, do not let them see you cry.

The five of us walking confidently in a row, I'd never felt cooler. The Great Perhaps was upon us, and we were invincible. The plan may have had faults, but we did not.

Often, even if I'm struggling with a decision or something, if I just go out into the ocean, that answer will come without thinking about it too much.

Gord Downie is extraordinary. It's safe to say there's nobody like that guy that I've ever come across.

Reporters aren't actually people!

If America becomes militant, it will be because its people choose to become such; it will be because they think that war and warlikeness are desirable.