Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.

What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.

Happiness, not in another place, but this place ... not for another hour, but for this hour.

May you live every day of your life.

If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.

A smile gives brightness to the day.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything  - anger, anxiety, or possessions - we cannot be free.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed.

There's no war that will end all wars.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.

It is my conviction that there is no way to peace. Peace is the way.