Not only do our trials become classrooms that teach us life’s most profound lessons, they add joy and meaning to daily living.

Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.

You were born to be real, not to be perfect. You are here to be you, not to live someone else's life.

Wisdom is the best gift you can ever build. It gets you to unimagined heights and knowledge follows it.

I know that I do not know, and uncertainty, certainly, is the cruelest of words.

Earn Nicely, spend wisely and you will live happily.

Manners and politeness will never become old-fashioned.

By learning to be more warm-hearted we can create a more compassionate world.

Hope lies in what action we take.

It is in the nature of the mind that the more we cultivate and familiarize ourselves with positive emotions, the more powerful they become.

The future can be different if we choose to make it so.

As Moses threw whatever in his hand on the ground, so does hand should do what it can to earn miracles.

A poet can imagine an iceberg singing a melancholic song while the world leaders find it difficult to imagine proper solution to global warming.

If your morals make you dreary depend on it they are wrong.

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

I think that as you get older, you learn to live in yourself more securely.

Every achievement, every step forward in knowledge, is the consequence of courage, of toughness towards oneself, of sincerity to oneself

Why should I bring happiness to those I loathe by obliterating myself, when I can make them miserable just by existing?

Joy is not a feeling in us. Joy does not enter into us. We enter into joy: "Enter into the joy of your Lord" (Mt 25:21).

I have about nine guitars in all, so obviously I'm into collecting.

In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.