The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

The reason many people in our society are miserable, sick, and highly stressed is because of an unhealthy attachment to things they have no control over.

Life is too short to waste any amount of time on wondering what other people think about you.
In the first place, if they had better things going on in their lives, they wouldn't have the time to sit around and talk about you.
What's important to me is not others' opinions of me, but what's important to me is my opinion of myself.

No matter what your history has been,
your destiny is what you create today.
What are you going to create?

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.

Give a bowl of rice to a man
and you will feed him for a day.
Teach him how to grow his own rice
and you will save his life.

A ship is always safe at the shore,
but that is NOT what it is built for.

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

A debate is usually a heated conversation with two people talking to each other and listening to themselves.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future.