The only way to truly know a person is to argue with them. For when they argue in full swing, then they reveal their true character.

Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because the regret is stronger than gratitude.

What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven't even happened yet.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

Whoever is happy will make others happy.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices. Then our choices make us.

You can always give something, even if it is only kindness.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness.

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!

Failure is a friend if we can see past the face of the foe that we project on it.

Heaven-gates are not so highly arched As princes' palaces

Ignore what other people think. Most people aren't even paying attention to you.

The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.

The mind of the many is not the mind of God.

But if you have a book that needs urgent reading,' she said, 'then Hakim is your man.

I'm not here now. This isn't happening. You're just visiting a dream of mine.

A society which reverences the attainment of riches as the supreme felicity will naturally be disposed to regard the poor as damned ... if only to justify itself for making their life a hell.

People have a different idea of how movies are made than they really are.

I am writing to you because she said you listen and understand and didn't try to sleep with that person at that party even though you could have.