It takes courage...to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives.

Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.

If a train doesn't stop at your station, then it's not your train.

Until we have seen someone's darkness, we don't really know who they are. Until we have forgiven someone's darkness, we don't really know what love is.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.

It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it.

Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.

You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.

Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Vision without action is merely a dream; action without vision is merely passing time; but vision and action together can change the world.

Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.

I am not young enough to know everything.

The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.