People sacrifice the present for the future. But life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now.

Because you are alive, everything is possible.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms.

Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge.

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?

If you love someone but rarely make yourself available to him or her, that is not true love.

There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way.

The privilege of the grave: Its occupant has one privilege which is not exercised by any living person: free speech.

Don't differentiate without a difference.

I have survived two wars, two wives and Hitler.

I naturally prefer the company of people who hold grudges, as long as they are not held against me.

It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans, in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians received from the Old World.

Who would believe that so small a space could contain the images of all the universe?

Luckily, I didn't get too beaten up before someone gave me a shot, but there were times when I was living on friends' couches and eating five-dollar subs from Subway almost every meal.

She still felt like a punked-out, faux-leather-wearing, free-thinking Bratz doll in a sea of Pretty Princess of Preppyland Barbies.

How can a thing possibly govern others when it cannot be governed itself?

But nobody predicted anything of this magnitude in terms of resistance. And in part, the magnitude of the resistance was spurred by our failures in reconstruction.