To say, “I’ve been converted and that’s that, ” is to say you have decided to quit growing. If life is about anything, it is about growing. The day I quit changing and learning is the day I die.

Not everybody can identify a purpose in life. But when you do, and when you pursue it, you will be living the kind of life you feel you were meant to live. And what's more, you will be happy.

But I give best when I give from that deeper place; when I give simply, freely and generously, and sometimes for no particular reason. I give best when I give from my heart.

Sincere compliments cost nothing and can accomplish much. In any relationship, they are the applause that refreshes.

Learn - improve - grow - live. Learn as if you might live forever and you'll live as if you might die tomorrow.

It's true that laughter really is cheap medicine. It's a prescription anyone can afford. And best of all, you can fill it right now.

It's good to remember that success may be just beyond the next failure, and you'll get there, not because you're destined to, but because you're determined to.

Wherever you are, be there. If you can be fully present now, you'll know what it means to live.

Find 100 reasons to laugh. You are bound to feel better, you will cope with problems more effectively and people will enjoy being around you. Besides unhappiness, what do you have to lose?

We don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note. Only notes that are different can harmonize. The same is true with people.

We are stronger than we think. We have emotional, spiritual and even physical resources at our disposal. We may get knocked down, but we don't have to stay down.

The difference between what you expect and what you get is the problem.

To look at the work of your peers, and learn how to explain with kindness and precision, the nature of their mistakes is, in fact, how you learn to diagnose your own work.

My poetic aspirationIs to become, A Jack of all stylesAnd a master of pun.

As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.

I have a slight addiction to Diet Coke, and, of course, I absolutely shouldn't touch it because it makes the kidneys work really hard.

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best.

I used to buy lottery tickets every week until I realised you could watch it on TV for nothing.

No man is an unbeliever, but because he will be so; and every man is not an unbeliever, because the grace of God conquers some, changes their wills, and binds them to Christ.

Factory windows are always brokenOther windows are let alone.No one throws through the chapel-windowThe bitter, snarling, derisive stone.