See the positive side, the potential, and make an effort.

The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one's life.

Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.

It is our basic right to be a happy person, happy family, and eventually a happy world. That should be our goal.

I call the light and high aspects of my being spirit and the dark and heavy aspects soul. Soul is at home in the deep, shaded valleys. Heavy torpid flowers saturated with black grow there. The rivers flow like warm syrup. They empty into huge oceans of soul. Spirit is a land of high white peaks and glittering jewel-like lakes and flowers. Life is sparse and sounds travel great distances. There is soul music, soul food, and soul love... People need to climb the mountain not simple because it is there But because the soulful divinity needs to be mated with the spirit.

It is... very helpful to think of adversity not so much as a threat to our peace of mind but rather as the very means by which patience is attained.

Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.