"In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag."

"Life is like a piano... what you get out of it depends on how you play it."

"I'll be ready for it to happen and that way it won't happen. It's a burden, being able to control situations with my hyper-vigilance, but it's my lot in life."

"I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone."

"Sometimes the joys of our youth do not translate to joys in adulthood and it鈥檚 hard to release them."

"No earthly teacher is flawless. If you limit yourself to learning according to the exact mindset of the teacher, you will also inherit his flaws."

"Every time you get angry, you poison your own system."

"If you observe a really happy man, you will find... that he is happy in the course of living life twenty-four crowded hours each day."

"All marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems."

"Sometimes the only sense we can make out of life is a sense of humor."

"If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way."

"'All say, 'How hard it is to die' - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live."