You are the only you ... You are the best you. You will always be the second best anyone else.

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.

There is in true grace an infinite circle: a man by thirsting receives, and receiving thirsts for more.

The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.

Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.

Memory is the scribe of the soul.

More are taken in by hope than by cunning.

Love and ahimsa are matchless in their effect.

Possessing things is not that interesting. Living in a grand environment to show myself and others that I have wealth has zero appeal.

When a man makes up a story for his child, he becomes a father and a child together, listening.

It is now time for our nation to frustrate the wild dreams of the whites.