If we want to increase our own happiness, we need to invest in growing the community happiness and also take care of the whole, of Mother Earth.

I will not cease to walk in the direction towards my purpose, even if it means constantly walking on a bumpy road.

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.

The liberal idea of tolerance is more and more a kind of intolerance. What it means is 'Leave me alone

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

Every Sunday my dad calls to ask if I went to church. And every Sunday I lie and say: Sorry. Wrong Number.

Porches are America's lost rooms.

It was known in the mid 90s already that Saddam Hussein was a dangerous tyrant that he had already launched aggressions against Iran, he had invaded Kuwait.

Happiness does not exclude sadness - if a person responds to life, he's sometimes happy and sometimes sad. What matters is he responds.

Be bold, and try not to fall in love with your faults. Don't be so afraid of giving yourself away, either, for if yo write, you must. And if you can't face that, better not write.

Only the refined and delicate pleasures that spring from research and education can build up barriers between different ranks.