Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.

Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.

Happiness is determined more by one’s state of mind than by external events.

Happiness is determined more by one's state of mind than by external events.

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.

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

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

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

The goodbyes we speak and the goodbyes we hear are the good byes that tell us we're still alive

Oh shit, the mummy's after us, let's all walk a little faster

Everyone loves something for nothing...even if it costs everything.

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities.

The most powerful force in the universe is compound interest.

I salute the man who is going through life always helpful, knowing no fear, and to whom aggressiveness and resentment are alien. 

It is true that my parents were worried because I began to speak relatively late, so much so that they consulted a doctor. I can’t say how old I was then, certainly not less than three.

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Don’t listen to the person who has the answers; listen to the person who has the questions.

No better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; no true beauty without the signature of these graces in the very countenance.

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul’s own doing.

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

Take care of your inner, spiritual beauty. That will reflect in your face.