The very purpose of our life is to seek happiness.

An open heart is an open mind.

Sometimes when I meet old friends, it reminds me how quickly time passes. And it makes me wonder if we've utilized our time properly or not. Proper utilization of time is so important. While we have this body, and especially this amazing human brain, I think every minute is something precious. Our day-to-day existence is very much alive with hope, although there is no guarantee of our future. There is no guarantee that tomorrow at this time we will be here. But we are working for that purely on the basis of hope. So, we need to make the best use of our time. I believe that the proper utilization of time is this: if you can, serve other people, other sentient beings. If not, at least refrain from harming them. I think that is the whole basis of my philosophy. So, let us reflect what is truly of value in life, what gives meaning to our lives, and set our priorities on the basis of that. The purpose of our life needs to be positive. We weren't born with the purpose of causing trouble, harming others. For our life to be of value, I think we must develop basic good human qualities—warmth, kindness, compassion. Then our life becomes meaningful and more peaceful—happier.”

World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just mere absence of violence. Peace is, I think, the manifestation of human compassion.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

genuine smile and laugh never goes out of fashion

If someone does not smile at you, be generous and offer your own smile. Nobody needs a smile more than the one that cannot smile to others.

Smile if you want a smile from another face.

I wanted to say goodbye to someone, and have someone say goodbye to me. The goodbyes we speak and the goodbyes we hear are the goodbyes that tell us we´re still alive

For your family, you do all that you can

I think different. And I can think different if I want to.

But even things not there have weight. Negative weight which is the worst kind.

The little ones are the only good human beings.

The future was cloudy, but tonight the moon was bright.

You always know the truth, because when you cut yourself or someone else with it, there's always a bloody show

But how you feel and how long you feel it doesn’t always have a lot to do with objective truth

I did something good for you just now. Before the sun goes down tonight, I want you to pass it on

When you get old, peace is about all you want.

Life could sometimes be grand.

I like to hang out clothes on windy days. Sometimes that's all I feel like. A sheet on a line.

Relief loosens tongues beyond measure.

The shining. It was a good name, a comforting name, because she had always thought of it as a dark thing

It was how wars really ended, Dieffenbaker supposed -- not at truce tables but in cancer wards and office cafeterias and traffic jams. Wars died one tiny piece at a time, each piece something that fell like a memory, each lost like an echo that fades in winding hills. In the end even war ran up the white flag. Or so he hoped. He hoped that in the end even war surrendered

You could start at a path leading nowhere more fantastic than from your own front steps to the sidewalk, and from there you could go… well, anywhere at all.