Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance

Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment

The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy

Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake

In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense, however, we are all one. For though islands appear separate, and may even be situated at great distances from one another, they are only extrusions of the same planet, Earth