Suffering increases your inner strength. Also, the wishing for suffering makes the suffering disappear.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy-Dalai Lama

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.

There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do and mostly Live.

Don't ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness for weakness. Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.

Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.

Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.

Don't unzip your chest to show all your scars, hold it tight with love and let them bloom like flowers.

Urge and urge and urge, Always the procreant urge of the world.

I don't understand how meat like you survived to adulthood.

Someone or something that wastes your time, makes you lose a part of your life. One you can never get back.

As a child I made a pact with my mother. I agreed that we were doomed, that she and I abided together in a cocoon of melancholy.

Universities are the custodians not only of the many cultures of man, but of the rational process itself.

Be approximately right rather than exactly wrong.

I love the idea that you can create a world through song.

There's almost nothing like native Midwesterner anywhere else in the world, except in Asia. They're miracles all in themselves.

I just said to myself, 'Damn, I'm a great player.'