The most important thing in the world is that you make yourself a loving person, because this is what you will be giving away.

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.

The value we place on what we've been given correlates to our depth of gratitude for it.

Imagination is not to be divorced from the facts. It is a way of illuminating the facts.

If you're going to play at all, you're out to win. Baseball, board games, playing Jeopardy, I hate to lose.

The greater amount of truth is impulsively uttered; thus the greater amount is spoken, not written.

But no one frees himself from being in love in three days.

It is the fortunate who should extol fortune. [Ger., Das Gluck erhebe billig der Begluckte.]

The world news might not be therapeutic.

One can overlook stupidity, until it evolves into malice.

Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish.

My skull is crammed with quotations.