It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON.

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy.

Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.

God much are the truly wealthy. So our inner happiness depends not on what we experience but on the degree of our gratitude to God, Gratitude — the Secret of Life.

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

I would rather be a cripple and have your love for all of a single moment than to live as I am without ever having it.

I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell.

How can we learn the value of saying no, if we didn’t occasionally say yes?

You get a: "Can Do Attitude, " by practicing to be excellent. Since you earn success by being determined, higher willpower is earned too. Raise yourself to excellence.

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.

I think a lot of people have an idea of virtual reality from science fiction, books and movies that have been out over the last couple of decades.

What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years.

Every Christian will allow that sin is an evil, and that it is our duty not to commit sin.

I wrote The Grapes of Wrath in one hundred days, but many years of preparation preceded it.

Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?