The external only creates dependency.

You cannot save everyone. Some people are going to destroy themselves no matter how much you try to help them.

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.

Every positive thought is a silent prayer which will change your life.

Your intelligence is a fire that can illuminate any darkness. Awaken and let your mind burn so brightly! You are alive for a reason!

You cannot save people from themselves. All you can do is stand firmly in your hopes for them, with compassion.

When the storm rips you to pieces, you get to decide how to put yourself back together again.

Some people are so addicted to their misery that they will destroy anything that gets in the way of their fix.

Your health is a long-range investment that will pay-off when you need it most.

If you are really humble you will put yourself first when you need to take care of you.

By choosing positivity you become a contender for the human spirit giving hope to those in need.

No dirt can touch me, like an ocean, everything that comes to me becomes clean.

Dullness it is that perverts and corrups the spirit but it is always possible to look past the dullness, and see the bright, shining heart of things

Once, if my memory serves me well, my life was a banquet where every heart revealed itself, where every wine flowed.

The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.

Emptiness is bound to bloom, like hundreds of grasses blossoming.

The first thing we noticed was how flamboyant [Dalton] Trumbo was in real life.

I'm also a big American Idol fan. I think it's just great fun.

A stroke of a man knocking a thistle top with a walking stick

Mr. Gandhi, you have been working fifteen hours a day for fifty years. Don't you think you should take a vacation?" Gandhi smiled and replied, "I am always on vacation.

If in my twenties I'd gotten one of the two-dozen roles that I did screen tests for and almost got, I think I would have become bored with the awards circuit, the whole hype machine.