Our enemies are our greatest teachers.

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.

Hungry people are always thinking about food

...this beginning motion, this first time when a sail truly filled and the boat took life and knifed across the lake under perfect control, this was so beautiful it stopped my breath...

Stress should be a powerful driving force, not an obstacle.

A single observation that is inconsistent with some generalization points to the falsehood of the generalization, and thereby 'points to itself'.

Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.

In Islam, all living things have souls. We are made pure by the fire of the lord compassion.

No battle was ever won by wholly sane men.

The highest form of leadership is one in which a leader raises up other leaders - not as an accident, but as a result of conscious effort.

Sin is nothing else but the failure to recognize human wretchedness.

In the absence of hope we must still struggle to survive, and so we do-by the skin of our teeth.