Taste goodness before you recommend it.

Silently hear everyone. Accept what is good. Reject and forget what is not. This is intelligent living.

Happiness depends on what you can give, not on what you can get.

Don't put the key to your happiness in someone else's pocket

Children are not vessels to be filled but lamps to be lit.

Leave aside your regrets of the past and anxieties of the future And focus intelligently on the present. This is the best way of ensuring a positive future.

Man can change his destiny-not by wishing for it, but by working for it.

To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness.

Expose yourself to aloneness. When a person is left alone, he starts thinking of higher reality - about death, life, soul, God and the mystery of all.

The Present is the womb of the future. A greater future happiness can be had only by investing in the present correctly. Look after the present and the future will look after itself.

Love is a consistent passion to give, not a meek persistent hope to receive. The only demand of life is the privilege to love all.

Choose your path or others may choose it for you.

For the first time I realized adults could back themselves into corners so remote that love, or its memory, could no longer reach them.

Victory occurs when you let God fight your battles.

I'm not the kind of person to jump into a relationship with a guy. I do a lot of figuring out about the person and his background, what he wants, and why he is interested in me.

For a decision-the freest of my actions just happens like hiccups inside me or like a bird singing outside me.

I don?t feel rejected by the sky. I?m a part of it- tiny, to be sure, but everything is tiny compared to that overwhelming immensity.

Being with a man incapable of telling a lie – a whole lot of awesome. Being with a man who could taste when you lied – sucked the big one.

The key to encouragement is in knowing what gives people courage; what spurs them on to action.

Can you gather your vital breath and yet be tender like a newborn baby?

Be ready to face the worst. This will leave you with stability in your mind.