Reverence for life, veneratio vitæ, is the most direct and at the same time the profoundest achievement of my will-to-live.

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.

Apparently officers are not ‘men’. Officers are ‘officers’.

Religion is not a department of life it is something that enters into the whole of it.

I don't care about lasting. I just want right now.

Influencing people is dangerous. Their acts and thoughts become your illegitimate children. You can't get away from them and Heaven knows what they mayn't grow up into.

The Painter must leave the beholder something to guess.

Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out

The key things I learned as a hospital administrator are to be organized, communicate, and be flexible.

Mercy is the mark of a great man! (stabs defeated opponent) I guess I'm just a good man. (stabs opponent again) Well ... I'm alright.

I am a lover and have not found my thing to love.

Don't mistake routine for commitment, just showing up is not enough.