A balanced and skillful approach to life, taking care to avoid extremes, becomes a very important factor in conducting one's everyday existence.

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.

Mindfulness, the aware, balanced acceptance of present experience, is at the heart of what the Buddha taught.

He mourns the dead who lives as they desire.

The Wrong we have Done, Thought, or Intended Will wreak its Vengeance on Our SOULS.

I come closer to my desk as to a bulwark against life.

So many other countries have had female leaders, in fact the U.S. ranks 61st in female representation in government and I think it is startling and sign of a change that needs to be made.

Beautiful things spoil nothing.

All property and all forms of wealth are produced by man's mind and labor.

Academic staff rather enjoy coming to conclusions, but they don't like coming to decisions at all.

I did not read Gone with the Wind, although I've seen the movie, and I read every book on Margaret Mitchell.

The great trouble is that the preachers get the children from six to seven years of age and then it is almost impossible to do anything with them.