Someone spilled the ink on the canvas. Now boasts: "I painted the night".

We live in the world when we love it.

Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free.

It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.

The most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

The problem is not how to wipe out all differences, but how to unite with all differences intact.

The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.

If you pay the price for success, you win. If you avoid payment, you lose. It’s really that simple.

Ah, but is any history really all that ancient?' Second asked. 'Doesn't every moment from the past affect the present?' This man was more annoying than any history teacher Jordan had ever had.

May your lamp forever burn at night.

You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage half shut afterwards.

Grandma once told me it's easy to overthink love, to dissect it and question it until it is no more.

Lillian Gish thought that there should be a cabinet position for the arts and I think she was right. I think she was right.

Blind belief can be comforting, but it can easily cripple reason and productivity, and stop intellectual progress.

We're all - all of us - a minute away from dying. If you're aware of that, life becomes a little more precious. Also, you have a slightly different outlook. It's not so much "gimme, gimme."

Scarcity is a captivating book, overflowing with new ideas, fantastic stories, and simple suggestions that just might change the way you live.