Besides the respect of the lives of human beings, all the animals and plants should be on the list too. That is the real humanitarianism.

Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to others.

Peace comes from within.  Do not seek it without.

Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading

Tune as the sitthar, neither high nor low, and we will dance away the hearts of men.

Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.

Your mind is a powerful thing. When you filter it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

The way to happiness is: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, give much. Fill your life with love. Do as you would be done by.

Since everything is a reflection of our minds, everything can be changed by our minds.

If you go through life expecting nothing chances are you'll be content most of the time.

When you argue for your limitations, Nature’s very kind it gives them to you. Just like when you desire to go beyond, Nature conspires to open ways for you.

Forty million Frenchmen can't be wrong.

The Bible says somewhere that we are desperately selfish. I think we would have discovered that fact without the Bible.

When I'm asked what my girls will think when they grow up, I'll tell them that they have to keep their clothes on till they're 40. But when they're 40, they can make their own decisions.

I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly.

I used to stand on the Kop when I was here in 1969. The atmosphere and passion on the pitch as well as the terraces was intoxicating and Liverpool became part of me from that day on.

Progress: The process whereby the human race has got rid of whiskers, the vermiform appendix and God.

I have thoroughly compromised your niece," Alex declared. "Will you plase insist that she marry me?" Caroline didn't bat an eyelash. "This", she announced, "is most peculiar.

When you make people feel important, you're going to be ahead of the game.