We have made a great effort to maintain all levels of Buddhist education; it has helped us have a kind of renaissance, really.

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.

Some people are magic, and others are just the illusion of it.

Achieving your goal is greatExceeding your goal is exceptionalExceeding your goal and teaching others is Leadership

My black hero is and always will be Martin Luther King, not just because of the strength of his oratory but because his vision was very much the reality that I'd come to take for granted.

I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk - not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters.

It is not paradox to say that in our most theoretical moods we may be nearest to our most practical applications.

I did not write it (Uncle Tom's Cabin). God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.

It is almost always the cover-up rather than the event that causes trouble.

Every time we are confronted with a new revolution we take to the opium pipes of our own propaganda.