Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.

The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

Forgiveness … is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.

I can't give you a recipe for success, but I can give you a recipe for failure: try to please everybody.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished.

I felt it shelter to speak to you.

There will always be someone who can't see your worth. Don't let it be you.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.