We need cooperation based on trust and self-confidence to create an open, compassionate, harmonious society.

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.

don't try to be best, try to give your best.

If you do not completely accept yourself, you can not love yourself fully. It would be hard to love anything unconditionally.

Learn to do common things uncommonly well

Chemistry is great, but eventually your relationship moves out of the laboratory.

God doesn't promise us a perfect life. He promises us a perfect eternity.

Other nations use 'force' we Britons alone use 'Might'.

I am not deep, but I am very wide.

When I read it ["Tough Guys Don't Dance"], I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.

Many of the old masters of watercolour painted from notes, with enthusiasm either unabated or renewed. It is hard to assume the same degree of concentration in the studio, but not impossible.

I would tell myself that I was about to address the largest mass assembly of idiots ever gathered in the history of mankind.