The greater the force of your compassion, the greeater your resilience in confronting hardships.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy-Dalai Lama

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.

There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do and mostly Live.

Don't ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness for weakness. Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.

Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.

Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.

They have fixed our nutrition and arranged our life-span. More than this, and ahead of this, efforts will not be productive.

You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.

You don't have to be fearless. Just be sincere.

You cannot struggle to joy. Struggle and joy are not on the same channel. You joy your way to joy. You laugh your way to success. It is through your joy that good things come.

I never got really good at hockey.

The most powerful military country in the world, America - which makes all the guns, all the machinery, all the bullets - taught us how to shoot the guns.

The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect.

We used to get published a lot. And there was this vodka advertisement... it embarrassed me a lot afterwards.

Later works are better because it takes a lot of time in architecture to mature. And, it takes a lot of discipline to experience everything that is changing around you.

The first step in our walk of faith is to stop our own works and rest in God's love, wisdom and power.