“The word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.”

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

“The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.”

“When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen you may learn something new.”

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

“Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.”

“Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.”

“Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.”

“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.”

“The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.”

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

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

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