Our attitude towards suffering becomes very important because it can affect how we cope with suffering when it arises.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy-Dalai Lama

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.

There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do and mostly Live.

Don't ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness for weakness. Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.

Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.

Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows

Remember that everything has God's fingerprints on it.

Civil disobedience is not accepted by religion and the state does not accept it and there are many verses in the Holy Book that talk of following the ruler.

There's a long history of all kinds of cop films... But all these films are really about the same thing: the good guys triumphing over the bad guys.

You were never created to live depressed, defeated, guilty, condemned, ashamed or unworthy. You were created to be victorious.

Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.

I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair.

They should have focused more on me.

I am often tired of myself, and I have a notion that by travel I can add to my personality, and so change myself a little. I do not bring back from a journey quite the same self that I took.