Every act of goodness is born from our desire to be happy.

When you treat your failures as lessons, you can never fail.

Believe in your greatness. Because what you believe is what you become.

Everything in this world happens with a purpose. You are born in this world with a purpose, you are chosen by purpose.

Thank people who help you because they make you happy. Thank people who don't help you because they make you strong.

When you have power and use it for destructive purpose: you don't deserve it.

When it's possible for you to dream, it's not impossible to achieve.

You have not failed until you accept your failure.

Don't care about success or failure. Keep doing what you love. Success will follow.

Failure is the greatest teacher.

Love is elixir that keeps you alive. Love is poison that kills you. Unreciprocated love keeps you alive, but kills every day.

Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have really learned from life for ourselves.

Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?

It’s a terrible thing, isn’t it? To be dragged under?

He who attempts to resist the wave is swept away but he who bends before it abides.

These people, as far as I can see, do not congregate in the notorious centers of the movement, like the North Beach in San Francisco or Greenwich Village, or Venice, California.

I have also a paper afloat, with an electromagnetic theory of light, which, till I am convinced to the contrary, I hold to be great guns.

Food is much better off the hand than the fork.

Never have the world's moneys been so long cut off from their metallic roots.

Parenting meant that whether or not your children understood you, your obligation was to understand them.

If I had a picture of two handcuffed criminals being booked, I would cut the picture in half and get five bucks for each.