From tiny, tiny waves of joy, one gets to the ocean of happiness, which is called bliss.

We must take situations as they are. We must only change our mental attitudes towards them.

Meditation is the sharp tool to dig out the great treasure hidden within everybody's inner personality.

Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you.

Don't fight darkness. Bring the light, and darkness will disappear.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.

Do not fight the darkness, let the light in and the darkness will disappear.

Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life.

The genius of man is hidden in the silent, settled state of mind from where every thought emerges.

If you're too busy to meditate twice a day, you're just too busy.

Naturalness is the basis of effectiveness. If one poses to be something else, one loses the charm of naturalness. The result is that one accumulates stress.

Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?

A genius is a person who is more observant and has more patience.

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

This is a business meal. The calories do not count. I am mentally labeling these as 'business calories' so my body will know they were eaten in the line of duty and will process them differently.

People are renovating places and opening ambitious new venues. That's one thing that music does. It gets people out of their houses, and gets them hanging out together.

And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.

Character, not passion keeps marriages together long enough to do their work of raising children into mature, responsible, productive citizens.

If you're not in Germany, you're not in Europe. And if you're not in Asia, you're nowhere.

I make it my rule, to lay hold of light and embrace it, wherever I see it, though held forth by a child or an enemy.

I find supermarkets fascinating places. It's extraordinary, you can buy anything there.