“Kindness should become the natural way of life,not the exception.”

You throw thorns, falling in my silence they become flowers.

The mind is everything. What you think, you become.

Remembering a wrong is like carrying a burden on the mind.

Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.

A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.

Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to others.

Success isn’t the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.

If you find no one to support you on the spiritual path, walk alone.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

From a withered tree, a flower blooms.

Awake. Be the witness of your thoughts. You are what observes, not what you observe.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

Rule your mind or it will rule you.

True love is born from understanding.

Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

Losing someone we love, or the fear of losing someone we love one day is a difficult experience and we can all relate to it. None of us are an exception to this reality.

Like a midwife, I make my living bringing new babies into the world, except that mine are new advertising campaigns.

I cannot live anywhere else except India.

After acknowledging that most law enforcement personnel are fair-minded and do a difficult job, it only takes one exception to create a terrible tragedy.

I’m not really afraid of the dark, except if I’m walking. The thing that scares me the most is the possibility of walking into a wall and busting my lip.

If you think about my filmography, I have never done a movie that a kid could go see, except for Iron Giant, and I’m not even on the screen.

In the public interest, therefore, it is better that we lose the services of the exceptions who are good Judges after they are seventy and avoid the presence on the Bench of men who are not able to keep up with the work, or to perform it satisfactorily.

I have never been converted to or even had much interest in spiritualism, occultism, Swedenborgianism or any particular religion. And I never, except occasionally for a laugh, visit the quacks who call themselves psychics.