When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.

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.

Thank goodness my education was neglected.

Supplication is to implore God for mercy and compassion, to have pity upon you or to grant you the request given and expect that He will do it.

Vigorous societies harbor a certain extravagance of objectives, so that men wander beyond the safe provision of personal gratifications.

The present inhabitation of Mars be a race superior to ours is very probable.

Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting.

Personality, too, is destiny.

Tell me what the world is saying today, and I'll tell you what the church will be saying in seven years.

the mute protest in your own bones

Discipline has within it the potential for creating future miracles.

I wanted to do my artistic work, and in Iran you have censorship. It was difficult for me to do the work I wanted to do.