A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

If you want a friend, buy a dog.

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.

We must not think of the things we could do with, but only of the things that we can't do without.

I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

I warn you that when the princes of this world start loving you it means they are going to grind you up into battle sausage.

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.

I am influenced by every second of my waking hour.