My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we stop and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset, I hear my mother's voice and smile.

Please, don’t worry so much… Because in the end none of us have very long on this earth.

Say yes. You’ll figure it out afterward.

I want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

The nature of man is evil. Your kindness is culture acquired.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

If citizens practiced friendship among themselves, they would not need justice.

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that's what you've given me. That's what I'd hoped to give you forever.

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.

All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.

Man know much more than he understands.

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself, that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth, people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

Men want the same thing from their underwear that they want from women: a little bit of support, and a little bit of freedom.

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

I’d said it before and meant it: Alive or undead, the love of my life was a badass.

Home is where one starts from.

From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

I think fashion is a lot of fun. I love clothes. More than fashion or brand labels, I love design. I love the thought that people put into clothes. I love when clothes make cultural statements and I think personal style is really cool. I also freely recognize that fashion should be a hobby.

When every day is equal it is because man has stopped perceiving the good things that arise in his life every time the sun crosses the sky.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

In politics, the important thing is not to be right, but to give it to one.

Within all of us is a divine capacity to manifest and attract all that we need and desire.