True enlightenment is nothing but the nature of one's own self being fully realized.

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.

life is a video game, only difference is that you don't always get three chances!

We again bear the cost of those who enjoyed their whole life while we were struggling.

Anybody can have common sense, povided that they have no imagination

Art, however innocent, looks like deceiving.

A million years went by quick.

I had a tight stomach all the time. I actually developed ulcers. I've learned better than to put all that internal pressure on myself.

I didn't want to make a record that was just guitar and voice, that was just the technology available to me. At the time, I remember thinking, "I am making a Faust album." That didn't translate.

Aphrodite is about lust and gluttony - the only two sins worth committing, in my opinion.

The true face of the unions is not now a man in a hard hat as much as it is a woman in a classroom or in cleaning smocks.

In capitalist enterprise there is no secure income and no security of wealth.