Happiness is a direction, not a place.

Knowledge fills a large brain it merely inflates a small one.

When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'

It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others.

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.