The proper way to create friends is to have a warm heart, not simply money or power. The friend of power and the friend of money are something different.

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.

when the picture is too close to your face you lose the sight, when the future is too close to your face you see the light.

I'm more than just a number. I doubt you'll find another

The basic lesson of our relativistic universe is that things change. Any power must always meet a greater power.

I'm forbidden fruit. Once you go to certain households, mommy doesn't want you to see that dirty man who sticks his tongue out and spits out blood and all that stuff.

You just want to try a bunch of stuff, because you don't know what's going to be great.

A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one.

Some time in our lives every man and woman of us, putting out our hands toward the stars, touch on either side our prison walls the immutable limitations of temperament

One arises from a low to a high station more often by using fraud instead of force.

L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.

In a few hours one could cover that incalculable distance; from the winter country and homely neighbours, to the city where the air trembled like a tuning-fork with unimaginable possibilities.