The only lasting trauma is the one we suffer without positive change.

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

Don't spend your precious time asking "Why isn't the world a better place?" It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is "How can I make it better?" To that there is an answer.

Love yourself-accept yourself-forgive yourself-and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things.

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.

Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating!

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.

I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.

Everybody needs a hug. It changes your metabolism.

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

There was no plan for us. We are a misspelling being erased by Death in order for the story of total chaos to continue.

Nothing's perfect, the world's not perfect, but it's there for us, trying the best it can. That's what makes it so damn beautiful.

I'm giving serious thought into eating yor wife” - Hannibal Lecter

One should respect an honest person even if he expresses opinions differing from one's own.

My shooting technique is so poor that if someday I score from outside the box, the keeper has to be banned from football.

Hope is the most treacherous of all human fancies.

I'm a big believer that you always reiterate, you always learn, you always realize your business is evolving.

Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.

The strength and vitality of an empire is frequently due to the new aristocracy from the periphery.

Amiability is very often a weakness, but the most unobjectionable one as a rule.