The hardest battle you are ever going to have to fight is the battle to be just you.

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

Don't spend your precious time asking "Why isn't the world a better place?" It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is "How can I make it better?" To that there is an answer.

Love yourself-accept yourself-forgive yourself-and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things.

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.

Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating!

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.

I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.

Everybody needs a hug. It changes your metabolism.

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

To live with a mind full of grudges and jealousy, is to bargain to be constantly punished by negative feelings and emotions.

But don’t ever let me hear those words leave those beautifully pink lips of yours.” He warned her playfully. “Evo’s just fine.

If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine.

The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.

I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

The implements to him who can handle them.

We don't have unions in South Carolina because we don't need unions in South Carolina.

Bad chances were better than no chances.

I think we all see ourselves as the heroes in our own lives.

Misery makes sport to mock itself.