Being humble doesn't mean you lose; it means you have won. Give the victory to others.

We must be open to our mistakes and grow. Growth isn't based on being perfect, but moving toward the best we can be by being honest.

Don't always use PAIN that you receive as an excuse to GIVE PAIN.

Not everyone can see things the way you see it, so let go. You can't see everything the way they see it either, so let go again.

Don't hang on to your failures, because you can always try again. Trying gives hope. Hope gives us life.

If we do not create inner peace, outer peace is not possible.

You are your dreams. Your dreams are what you can become, so don't stop dreaming and believing. Just Do It!

Find yourself. Be with yourself. Fail and then achieve.

Be different, be altruistic. Be strange, work for others in response to their harm. Raise eyebrows, be generous without agenda.

Maturity is about Challenging yourself and Improving! And then taking that experience to help others.

Envy and jealousy are very harmful because you are never ever satisfied with what you have and you never reflect on what you have. You constantly live your life on what you do not have.

Jack of all trades or master of one? If you're a master of one, you'll soon be a master of none. Times are a changin. Be a jack of all trades. Or better, master of many!

...all I could think about was how both sets of parents had needed to make their decision, on whether to medicate their child, in a scientific vacuum. (p. 35)

Be not self-willed, for thou art much too fairTo be death’s conquest and make worms thine heir.

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

However, please allow me to say that the fundamental style of my writing has been to start from my personal matters and then to link it up with society, the state and the world.

The brain has this amazing ability to find happiness even when the memories of it are gone.

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

I have a pretty fancy facialist, this woman Dale Breault. Getting older, it's a good thing to have a serious facialist.

There was a lot of tension between my dad and his mother and brothers. Sometimes when I was over there, I remember thinking, "I don't want to get shot."

Misses! the tale that I relate This lesson seems to carry-- Choose not alone a proper mate, But proper time to marry.