Those who always have a sense of appreciation and gratitude never reach an impasse in life.

With love and patience, nothing is impossible.

What may look like a small act of courage is courage nevertheless. The important thing is to be willing to take a step forward.

You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.

Freedom doesn't mean the absence of all restrictions. It means possessing unshakable conviction in the face of any obstacle.

Salute to the Smiling Faces of the 21st Century.

No matter what our personal circumstances may be, if we ourselves become a source of light, then there will be no darkness in the world.

I cannot say this too strongly: Do not compare yourselves to others. Be true to who you are, and continue to learn with all your might.

What matters is the value we’ve created in our lives, the people we’ve made happy and how much we’ve grown as people.

Hope is the sun. It is light. It is passion. It is the fundamental force for life's blossoming.

Being sincere, dedicated and honest is the key. People of integrity triumph in the end.

In the race of life, what matters is to complete your race.

In some way there is no real life. It's always the story of your life that you're living.

My position hasn't changed over the years. Which is that online voting is a very unsafe idea and a very bad idea and something I think no technological breakthrough I can foresee can ever change.

It is almost an intellectual tradition to pay heed to the insane. In my case those that I most respect are the morons.

There is an obligation both moral, but also legal, I believe, against a reporter disclosing something which would so severely compromise national security.

England is an aquarium, not a nation.

I'm a good liberal, and I grew up in a very liberal family and had very strongly held beliefs.

I've thrown away lots of my old diaries - you never know who might get their hands on them. But I have kept a few notes on the good old days.

I have drawn a very close bond to all the military people.

Every community has its own specialty and it's not just for clothing obviously, but for the home, etc.