If a person wants to be a part of your life, they will make an obvious effort to do so. Think twice before reserving a space in your heart for people who do not make an effort to stay.

Happiness is not determined by what's happening around you, but rather what's happening inside you. Most people depend on others to gain happiness, but the truth is, it always comes from within.

Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don't save it for a special occasion; today is special.

Every single thing that has ever happened in your life is preparing you for a moment that is yet to come.

You will never become who you want to be if you keep blaming everyone else for who you are now.

Don't look for someone who will solve all your problems; look for someone who will face them with you.

Many people are so poor because the only thing they have is money.

Making a hundred friends is not a miracle. The miracle is to make a single friend who will stand by your side even when hundreds are against you.

If you expect the world to be fair with you because you are fair, you're fooling yourself. That's like expecting the lion not to eat you because you didn't eat him.

Be happy. Be yourself. If others don't like it, then let them be. Happiness is a choice. Life isn't about pleasing everybody.

When someone tells you, "You've changed," it might simply be because you've stopped living your life their way.

My body is an ugly masterpiece that lives off the beauty of sound.

There is only what you want and what happens. There is only grabbing on and holding tight in the darkness.

I am tired of having handsshe saidI want wings —But what will you do without your handsto be human?I am tired of humanshe saidI want to live on the sun —

Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

I hate women who say they can eat whatever they want, because I don't relate to that at all. It isn't fair! I absolutely live for food.

I don't smoke or drink, but I will not tell you that I won't smoke again. Probably I will when I'm 60.

If everyone enjoyed the unrestricted use of his faculties and the free disposition of the fruits of his labor, social progress would be ceaseless, uninterrupted, and unfailing.

My grandfather can barely even hear, and Chevy Chase makes a face, and he laughs.

What would make it very difficult to take society back to a repressive time would be technology. The arrival of the Internet.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.