“It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved.”

Not in doing what you like, but in liking what you do is the secret of happiness

“I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.” 

The magic thing about home is that it feels good to leave, and it feels even better to come back.

“If you get tired, learn to rest not to quit!”

“Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.”

ON CHILDREN

“That is what compassion does. It challenges our assumptions, our sense of self-limitation, worthlessness, of not having a place in the world, our feelings of loneliness and estrangement. These are narrow, constrictive states of mind. As we develop compassion, our hearts open.”

“If you salute your duty, you no need to salute anybody, but if you pollute your duty, you have to salute everybody.”

“Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you know they’re always there.”

Your child needs your presence more than your presents. – Jesse Jackson

The less you respond to negative people, the more positive your life will become.