"The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love."
"Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life."
"There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything."
"A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more peace and content in life than simply being a good husband and father."
"A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential."
"Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things."
"Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream."
"The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun."
"An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life."
"Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life."
"Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital."
"It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it."
"Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us."
"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead."
"The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy."
"I lost my sense of trust, honesty and compassion. I crashed down and became what I consider an emotional mess. I've never been so miserable in my whole life. I just wanted to go to bed and never get up."
"Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives."
"What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning."
"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?"
"That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love."
"Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever."
"Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner."
"Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness."
"We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness."
"When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection."
"The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness."
"I'm living the exact life I planned on living when I was five. My life has taken some turns and changes that I didn't anticipate, and it has brought me different things. I thought material things would bring me happiness, which they didn't. But through this, I have learned what things are important and what aren't."
"As a kid, I kind of spent my life being amazed by being tricked. I love being tricked. I still love it today."
"Amazingly when you add life and consciousness to the equation you can actually explain some of the biggest puzzles of science."
"The truth sets you free. It's a very liberating thing, when you say this is who I am warts and all and then you can just get on with life. It's amazing."