When you decide to follow a certain path, you should follow it to the end and not be diverted from it for personal reasons.

You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right.

It is not power that corrupts but fear.

Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.

Every thought, every word, and every action that adds to the positive and the wholesome is a contribution to peace. Each and every one of us is capable of making such a contribution.

We will surely get to our destination if we join hands.

It is not a sacrifice, it's a choice. If you choose to do something, then you shouldn't say it's a sacrifice, because nobody forced you to do it

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear

By helping others, you will learn how to help yourselves.

I don't think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I'm just rather flexible and adaptable.

To be kind is to respond with sensitivity and human warmth to the hopes and needs of others. Even the briefest touch of kindness can lighten a heavy heart. Kindness can change the lives of people.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

What’s a skull, if not a cage?What’s a gun, if not a key?

Not the sadness, but the happiness, is the ultimate purpose of life.

I think all good drama is funny. All the best drama is ultimately very funny. Life is funny. You can't have any honest treatise on life without bumping into some humor.

Sports are my favorite. It's the first thing I turn to every day.

Children should be taught to question everything . . . everything they read and everything they hear.

Tonight, the daughter of an immigrant from Italy has been chosen to run for vice president in the new land my father came to love.

Music was the voice I didn't have.

On a lone winter evening, when the frost Has wrought a silence.

Your future. It awaits only you, to live it and to write it. - Shaman's Crossing by Robin Hobb