Pain can change you, but that doesn't mean it has to be a bad change. Take that pain and turn it into wisdom.

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.

No sensible author wants anything but praise.

Four of us slept in the one bed. When it got cold, mother threw on another brother.

Humility is the time that you spend in love with existence.

There's no way to have a peace agreement unless the mediator or negotiator looks at both sides from an equal basis.

My biggest ambition is to bring together what happens in the real world with what politicians talk about.

There is a desire deep within the soul which drives man from the seen to the unseen, to philosophy and to the divine.

If you're opposites, you complement each other; you aren't jealous. Just annoyance and fighting, as opposed to rivalry.

Why not make a daily pleasure out a daily necessity.

The problem with requiring people to be loud and angry to get things done is that you're now surrounded by people who are loud and angry.

I don't separate one era of jazz from another, because I listen to everybody... Everybody takes from everybody else and adds their own thing and goes on from there.