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.

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.

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.

A deliberate attitude that you have to hold in your mind as one of the basic rules of yoga is to remain even-minded and cheerful.

My continuing passion is to explore strange industries, to acquire new knowledge and ask many questions, to boldly learn something I did not know before.

In rejecting secrecy I had also rejected the road to cynicism.

In all fairness to Secretary [Hillary] Clinton I want you to be very happy. It's very important to me.

Coquetry is the essential characteristic, and the prevalent humor of women; but they do not all practice it, because the coquetry of some is restrained by fear or by reason.

If you believe the noises of the world, rather than the silences of your soul, you will be lost.

Comfort the weak and feel the poor. What on earth do we need government for?

If you're going to get in the ring and try to take the belt, you have to prepare to get hit.

Martin Luther King was a leader for all Americans on our own professed values.

Habits and customs are a convenience devised for the support of timid natures who dare not allow their souls free play.

Children are not meant to be studied, but enjoyed. Only by studying to be pleased do we understand them.