In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

You will achieve definitive self-fulfilment only in the next life.

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Memory... is an internal rumour.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.

Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

If a black cat crosses your path, it signifies that the animal is going somewhere.

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.

God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.

There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.

We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.

Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.