As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

More people should read books. It’s the most concentrated experience you can have.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

We think when God speaks to us, there’s going to be a boom out of Heaven or we’re going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God’s talking to us all the time. He’s talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it’s the Holy Spirit talking to us.

Remember, it’s as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

The best workers, like the happiest livers, look upon their work as a kind of game: the harder they play the more enjoyable it becomes.

I give opinions, not advice.

Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

The idea of going to school and getting a job is the most destructive one in your brain.

You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

I can’t do nothing just a little.

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

We were born with a capacity to grow, love, marry, and form families.

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

My wife has about everything I can think of.

Remind yourself that winning an argument or proving your point really gets you nowhere in the long run. Win through your actions, not your words.

Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life unrelated to the universe.

If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.

I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and… I believe in miracles.

Anyone can have a good day, but you have to be able to perform on a bad day.

I feel matured in a way that I’m happy about. I’m at this other stage in my life – and it’s not a bad thing at all.

Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.

If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

If all you’re doing is grinding for the man, it’s going to burden you. Once you say, ‚Hey, I’m grinding for the man, but I’m putting money away, and this is part of my exit strategy,‘ you’re working for you.

Small aim is a crime.

Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.

The wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity.

Don’t compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

I know my serve stinks, but I was a pretty good tennis player.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

If I died tomorrow, I would be a happy girl.

Because, you know, resilience – if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you’d be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn’t a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

Mr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own.

Ego is only fine when it is working for your motivation.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

Occasionally, I hanker for the time when I sold more records, but I don’t sit and drool about it. When I do look at early footage of Talking Heads, I realise I was just a wreck.

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

He who is contented is rich.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.