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

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.

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.

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.

Write every day. Even if it's only a letter.

Public sentiment is everything, said Lincoln. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

You need to wake yourself up and take a grab at life. No one is going to hand it to you.

Your experiences are the foundation for your story

There is no death! the stars go down To rise upon some other shore And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown They shine for ever more.

I swear fearfully at the conventions of the stage.

Fame, on its best day, is kind of like a friendly wave from a stranger by the side of the road. And when it's not so good, it's like a long walk home, all alone, with nobody in when you get there.

Real wisdom does not occur here in this physical universe. Real wisdom is something that you have to move into the planes of the highest light to experience.

Some things I never learned to like. I didn't like to kiss babies, though I didn't mind kissing their mothers.

The wonderful thing about being a New York Times columnist is that it's like a Supreme Court appointment - they're stuck with you for a long time.