Anyone can be happy by simply training their brain.

Worries are pointless. If there's a solution, there's no need to worry. If no solution exists, there's no point to worry.

Nothing goes right on the outside when nothing is going right on the inside.

To love oneself is to love life. It is essential to understand that we make ourselves happy in making others happy.

Happiness is a skill, emotional balance is a skill, compassion and altruism are skills, and like any skill they need to be developed. That's what education is about.

The basic root of happiness lies in our minds; outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable.

Let us live simply in the freshness of the present moment, in the clarity of pure awakened mind.

We deal with our mind from morning till evening, and it can be our best friend or our worst enemy.

We all have the ability to study the causes of suffering and gradually to free ourselves from them....it is not the magnitude of the task that matters, it's the magnitude of our courage.

Authentic happiness is not linked to an activity, it is a state of being.

Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things.

Some people say that watching pay freezes in the government is like watching water freeze. It expands.

I think that you form the way that you act from others around you it's a kind of an environmental thing.

Sooner or later, a society of sheep must create a government of wolves.

Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships.

Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.

Our own worst enemy cannot harm us as much as our unwise thoughts. No one can help us as much as our own compassionate thoughts.

John Wayne was just a very conservative guy, who had not served in World War II, and he was defensive about that - he almost overcompensated his anti-Communism because of that reason.

If there wasn't any competition, I'd be very worried, because it would mean we were not doing very well.

If you're going to risk dying, there's no sense doing it wet, cold and hungry unless absolutely necessary.

Quality is made in the board room. A worker can deliver lower quality, but she cannot deliver quality better than the system allow.