Three quarters of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world would finish if people were to put on the shoes of their adversaries and understood their points of view

Where there is love there is life.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

True beauty lies in purity of the heart.

The future depends on what you do today.

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.

You can say that Lebanese has hundreds of lexemes for family relations. Family to the Lebanese is as snow to the Inuit.

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Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.

I meet a lot of people.

What do you get when you kiss a guy? You get enough germs to catch pneumonia. After you do, he'll never phone you.

First thing I did when I found out I made it into the top 13 is I tried not to faint and you know, I took it all in and I really looked at the crowd and said a big 'thank you'.

I can't see any difference in government between Bush and Obama apart from the color of their skin.

When you are reluctant to change, think of the beauty of autumn.

My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.

And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery.