To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness.

Silently hear everyone. Accept what is good. Reject and forget what is not. This is intelligent living.

Happiness depends on what you can give, not on what you can get.

Don't put the key to your happiness in someone else's pocket

Children are not vessels to be filled but lamps to be lit.

Leave aside your regrets of the past and anxieties of the future And focus intelligently on the present. This is the best way of ensuring a positive future.

Man can change his destiny-not by wishing for it, but by working for it.

Expose yourself to aloneness. When a person is left alone, he starts thinking of higher reality - about death, life, soul, God and the mystery of all.

The Present is the womb of the future. A greater future happiness can be had only by investing in the present correctly. Look after the present and the future will look after itself.

Love is a consistent passion to give, not a meek persistent hope to receive. The only demand of life is the privilege to love all.

What we have is a gift from Him. What we do with what we have is our gift to him

I am truly not an axiologist, but I am concerned about the value of life in all of its forms and shapes.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Joy and amazement of the beauty and grandeur of this world of which man can just form a faint notion.

If Men are so wicked as we now see them with Religion what would they be if without it?

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own: [I hate a sage who is not wise for himself]

In the sense of media saying this about themselves, I drive to my kids' school in upstate New York through rural Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York; [Donald] Trump signs everywhere.

I spent a great deal of time with Che Guevara while I was in Havana. I believe he was far less a mercenary than he was a freedom fighter.

The day of your birth leads you to death as well as to life.

Do you think I am standing here, making this up as I go? I am sorry to disillusion you. I am not Robin Williams. I am the king of the pen.