We ought all to make an effort to act on our first thoughts and let our unspoken gratitude find expression. Then there will be more sunshine in the world, and more power to work for what is good.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON.

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy.

Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.

God much are the truly wealthy. So our inner happiness depends not on what we experience but on the degree of our gratitude to God, Gratitude — the Secret of Life.

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

While they all ink their skin, I crave something permanent within.Bare your soulOpen your heartTattoo your love within.

She could have happily lived inside any nineteenth century novel.

You keep the title of 'president' even if you served only one term. The same goes for rapists.

Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.

My mother always said that everyone should be required to write an autobiography of their lives.

I would say, compared with the 19th century, compared with most previous history, this is as good or better a society than any which man has ever made. But that doesn't mean it is such a good one.

People may have too much of a good thing: Full as an egg of wisdom thus I sing.

Resolved, never to do any manner of thing, whether in soul or body, less or more, but what tends to the glory of God; nor be, nor suffer it, if I can avoid it.

Just because I am critical of the coalition doesn't mean I am anti-English. I am just anti-scumbags.

The greatest barrier to consciousness is the belief that one is already conscious.