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.

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.

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.

What we have is a gift from Him. What we do with what we have is our gift to him

In dealing with others, man is inherently a slave to his preconceptions, to the stereotypes he became familiar with that made life easier for him to comprehend.

I plunged into him, kissing him like I was flame and he was wood, our tongues igniting

Anything which throws light upon the Universe, anything which reveals us to ourselves, should be welcome in this world of riddles.

There's something about shooting webs out of my wrists and climbing up things that just makes me happy.

[From a window in the Writer's Building at MGM, which overlooked a cemetery:] Hello down there. It might interest you to know that up here we are just as dead as you are.

Watch the turtle. He only moves forward by sticking his neck out.

It was solitude, but it was solitude that wasn't lonely. Solitude that could sort things out. And he hadn't had that in ages.

I'm insanely optimistic. For odd, weird reasons, things always work out.

You are in a partnership with all other human beings, not a contest to be judged better than some and worse than others.

Hold infinity in the palm of your hand.