Attachment is the state of ignorance or forgetfulness, and thus clinging to a memory of enjoyment

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.

If you want to do one good thing in the world, the best thing you can do is give other people joy.

Happiness is like a plant: It must be watered daily with giving thoughts and actions.

Be thou a true yogi. A yogi who understands that everything he's looking for is really inside himself. Learn to live more in the Self.

The "kingdom of heaven" to which he referred was the state of God-consciousness, not the beautiful astral heavens that most people visualize, where virtuous souls go after death.

Even-minded and cheerful. When things go bad, you'll find that the same kind of attitude comes to you naturally.

Happiness is a question of attitude, not a question of what's happening out there.

Happiness is reverence for all life.

Spirituality means seeking experience. Not just belief.

Trust life, even if you cannot trust people. For human nature is unreliable, but life itself is ruled by immutable law. Right action leads always, in the end, to victory.

If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.

Nearly every historic fruit and vegetable variety once found in the United States has disappeared.

Meantime the Newspaper of Record goes around in a little pleated skirt shaking pompoms, leaping in the air with an idiot grin if so much as a cement mixer passes by.

Happiness does not exist as an isolated quality, nor does it conform to a single fixed pattern. Happiness is something that breathes and lives in the relationships between one person and another.

Knowledge can bring many things..but the consciousness of the heart brings love, and love brings everything

On 'Morning Joe' I can say what I think, be my sometimes unorthodox self, have fun, yet be serious as well.

India is a 2 trillion dollar economy today. Can we not dream of an India with a 20 trillion dollar economy?

Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.

When you see violence in movies in general, it's very quick and painless, which isn't what it's like.

Happiness is the ability to move forward, knowing the future will be better than the past.