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

A simple smile. That's the start of opening your heart and being compassionate to others.

A genuine, affectionate smile is very important in our day-to-day lives.

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.

Life was a wheel, its only job was to turn, and it always came back to where it started

Life is fair. We all get the same nine-month shake in the box, and then the dice roll. Some people get a run of sevens. Some people, unfortunately, get snake-eyes. Its just how the world is.

No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves.

We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.

Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.

When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, There's just something about you that pisses me off.

Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always comes around to where you started again

For your family, you do all that you can

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

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

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

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.

Because things can get better, and if you give them a chance, they usually do

Laughter, Susannah would later reflect, is like a hurricane: once it reaches a certain point, it becomes self-feeding, self-supporting. You laugh not because the jokes are funny but because your own condition is funny.

Memory is the basis of every journey.

A person can go along quite awhile if they get a good day every once and again.