With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.

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.

Ah, pay no heed if your enemies laugh. They'll not be able to once you lop off their heads.

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident.

We have to go on until Islam is made as ho-hum as Catholicism.

I could talk more directly in a nonfiction voice than I could in fiction.

We believe that the materials and the stories taken from the raw can be finer (more real in the philosophic sense) than the acted article.

We are the administrators of our money. We will have to give God an account of the use we make of it up to the last cent.

One can't predict the weather more than a few days in advance.

When we have "second thoughts" about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at all - just feelings.

There is nothing that exists that has only one side. Even a piece of paper, thin as it is, has two sides.