Don’t be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you. – Dale Carnegie

We have a responsibility to look after our planet. It is our only home.

My message is always the same: to cultivate and practice love, kindness, compassion and tolerance.

A learned person will become noble only when he or she has put into real practice what has been learned, instead of mere words.

The more we think of others, the happier we are. The more we think of ourselves, the more suffering we feel.

The foundation of the Buddha's teachings lies in compassion, and the reason for practicing the teachings is to wipe out the persistence of ego, the number-one enemy of compassion.

It is the state of mind of the person wielding the instrument that determines to what end it will be put.

Try to remain truthful. The power of truth never declines. Force and violence may be effective in the short term, but in the long run it's truth that prevails.

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

Act as if you were already happy and that will tend to make you happy

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving. – Dale Carnegie

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge. – Dale Carnegie

If some people are so hungry for a feeling of importance that they actually go insane to get it, imagine what miracle you and I can achieve by giving people honest appreciation this side of insanity. – Dale Carnegie

For better or worse, you must play your own instrument in the orchestra of life. – Dale Carnegie

Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind. – Dale Carnegie

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. – Dale Carnegie

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still. – Dale Carnegie

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another’s keeping . – Dale Carnegie

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. – Dale Carnegie