You can't change who you are, can you? That would require changing the people who made you along the way. That would mean discrediting everything they ever gave you.

Sometimes an adventure is a mundane thing. A trip to the shore with your best friend. Learning you can laugh in unearthly ways.

Volunteering is a great way to look outside your own problems. Giving back to makes you happier by both giving you a sense of purpose and helping to put your problems in perspective.

A state is an association of similar persons whose aim is the best life possible. What is best is happiness, and to be happy is an active exercise of virtue and a complete employment of it.

It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.

Life isn't always easy, but it's simple.

Inscrutably involved, we live in the currents of universal reciprocity.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that raises the dough.

To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance.

Karma is a medicine which is given for our own good. Karma is the law of compensation, not of vengeance.

You gain converts by winning at something the existing provider didn't think was so important.

It's difficult to talk to people who whisper even at home, afraid of Americans eavesdropping on them. It's not a figure of speech, not a joke, I'm serious.