True friends share genuine closeness and remain friends irrespective of fluctuating fortunes.

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.

Religion- made by men to rule women, children and idiots!

It is easy to give without loving yet DIFFICULT TO LOVE without GIVING.After all Love is a Verb, it must be demonstrated genuinely.

My name is Stephen Leeds, and I am perfectly sane. My hallucinations, however, are all quite mad.

I'll know America is in bad shape when Cubans in Miami get in the water and swim back to Cuba.

Lust, forgetful of future suffering, hurries us along the forbidden path.

There can be no permanent disfranchised peasantry in the United States.

Go do the right thing.

Good books do not make people wiser or happier--only more conscious.

Whereas European films have traditionally been able to go into adult relationships. I think there's a huge audience in America for those kinds of films.

For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners.