Take one step of courage and you will receive one thousandfold help.

Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.

The intention and the action of gratitude is the inner symphony of the heart. It opens to sing with thanks for the smallest of things. To hear a bird sing, to see a child laugh, to receive a friends affection - are all invitations to practise the attitude of gratitude. Gratitude is the kind of loving thanks which touches another's heart in a place where they will allow you to reside for a long time.

All thinking men are atheists.

If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.

It is better, of cours, to know useless things than to know nothing.

Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?

How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?

An elephant grows and becomes an adult, even if people do not like it.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

Unity is divinity; purity is enlightenment.

It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.

Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.

A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.

Who are the learned? They who practise what they know.

By taking time to enjoy moments of solitude you make time your friend.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

I always believe that ultimately, if people are paying attention, then we get good government and good leadership. And when we get lazy, as a democracy and civically start taking shortcuts, then it results in bad government and politics.

If one does not know to which port is sailing, no wind is favorable.

Only the educated are free.

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Its so simple to be smart...just think of something stupid to say, and say the opposite.

Sometimes its better to say nothing than to say everything.