We created time, and now we have become the slave of time.

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

Don't spend your precious time asking "Why isn't the world a better place?" It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is "How can I make it better?" To that there is an answer.

Love yourself-accept yourself-forgive yourself-and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things.

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.

Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating!

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.

I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.

Everybody needs a hug. It changes your metabolism.

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Hope drowned in shadowsemerges fiercely splendid––boldly angelic.

My love for peanut butter is so deep that I can't look at a jar without devouring it!

When change is necessary, not to change is destructive!

If we become an accomplice to criminal activities by the American government, then we are liable too.

My way of learning is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey-wrench into the machinery.

I grew up in a household in which the Bible played very little role.

I'm interested in characters that are complex people.

To criticise a person for their race is a manifestly irrational and ridiculous. But to criticise their religion - that is a right. That is a freedom.

Negativity is basically laziness. It takes a lot of hard work to remain positive, but positivity always pays off.

Lifestyle is an terrible, unpleasant put to not have a very finest buddy.