The purpose of religion is tocontrol yourself, not to criticiseothers.

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

Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.

When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.

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

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival.

Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.

Be open to learning new lessons, even if they contradict the lessons you learned yesterday.

Most wars, after all, present themselves as humanitarian endeavors to help people.

I think that the mark of a great book is that it will meet you wherever you're at and you'll feel and experience something new and different each time you read it.

I regard untouchability as such a grave sin as to warrant divine chastisement.

How much do I love thee? Go ask the deep sea How many rare gems In its coral caves be; Or ask the broad billows, That ceaselessly roar, How many bright sands Do they kiss on the shore?

Men are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not the things themselves.

If a man, sitting all alone, cannot dream strange things, and make them look like truth, he need never try to write romances.

They were tricky, those demons. Could they be trusted? Of course they could be trusted. She'd created them. She owned them. They wouldn't lead her astray.

Never turn back to see the result of what you have done. Give all to the Lord and go on, and think not of it.

Give us this day our daily mask.