What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.
To be successful is to be helpful, caring and constructive, to make everything and everyone you touch a little bit better.
Migrants and refugees are not pawns on the chessboard of humanity.
The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being.
Helping people in need is a good and essential part of my life, a kind of destiny.
The only thing that matters, at the end of a stay on earth, is how well did we love, what was the quality of our love?
The human spirit is more powerful than any drug and THAT is what needs to be nourished: with work, play, friendship, family. THESE are the things that matter.
This is the principle of Universal Brotherhood of man with one another, with all life down to the little ants.
Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
You know it’s funny, when it rains it pours they got money for wars, but can’t feed the poor.
I am me and I am okay.
I own me, and therefore, I can engineer me. I am me, and I am Okay.
I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware, I sit content, And if each and all be aware, I sit content.
The measure of your life will not be in what you accumulate, but in what you give away.
Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.
Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter; my refuge is humanity. I will not buy glass for the price of diamonds, and I will never allow patriotism to triumph over humanity as long as I live.
Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.
Morality comes from humanism and is stolen by religion for its own purposes.
Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.
Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.