Purpose and pleasure are two cornerstones of happiness

Today, just take time to smell the roses, enjoy those little things about your life, your family, spouse, friends, job.Forget about the thorns - the pains and problems they cause you - and enjoy your life.

the way to happiness- keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.

One of the most tragic things I know about the human nature is that all of us tend to put off living.We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon- instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

Life is like a roller-coaster with highs and lows. So quit complaining about it and enjoy the ride !!

An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of superior personality

I could feel it in my bones, how I missed the heat of my country and the love of my family.

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

You are not your emotions and they are not who you are, only how you feel at the moment.

You cant be disturbed by anything. Theres no emotion involved. You cant feel sorrow you cant feel pity theres nothing you feel. The job has to be done.

My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else.

If you live for people's acceptance you'll die from their rejection.

The lack of access to proper nutrition is not only fueling obesity, it is leading to food insecurity and hunger among our children.

Podcasts themselves cannot exist without the Internet - in a way, they are a microcosm of the Internet.

It's insane but it's a great insane.

Weight, force and casual impulse, together with resistance, are the four external powers in which all the visible actions of mortals have their being and their end.

Cows, after leaving the low lands near the coast, are found to be plentiful everywhere, and to produce milk in small quantities, from which butter is made.

Lao-tze's Taoism is the exhibition of a way or method of living which men should cultivate as the highest and purest development of their nature.

There is an art to eavesdropping but I think to some extent we are all guilty of picking up those little odds and ends that can be quite intriguing if you analyse them.

Politics is about the participation and engagement of the wider citizenry - to miss that point would doom us to irrelevance.

Stand outside De Eland, on the Berenstraat Bridge over the Prinsengracht, and you see what real Amsterdam life is like.

Discipline? I don't know the meaning of the word.

There's a band in the U.K. called Elbow. They're not that big in the U.S., but I think they're genius.

He who has never hoped, can never despair.

If imperialism is not banished from the country, China will perish as a nation. If China does not perish, then imperialism cannot remain.

In imperialism nothing fails like success. If the conqueror oppresses his subjects, they will become fanatical patriots, and sooner or later have their revenge; if he treats them well, and governs them for their good, they will multiply faster than their rulers, till they claim their independence.

Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself. If you don't have friends you see much less than you otherwise might.

I say I just happen to be gay. It's just like everything else - I've been on the board of The Humane Society, and I'm a vegetarian, but these are just some of the things that define me as a person. They don't define me in general.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

Nobody ever really thought of me as sexy, right? They thought of me as smart and quirky.