Happiness lies in making others happy, in forsaking self-interest to bring joy to others.

If you want to be sad, no one in the world can make you happy. But if you make up your mind to be happy, no one and nothing on earth can take that happiness from you.

Change yourself and you have done your part in changing the world

Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself.

I am a spark from the Infinite. I am not flesh and bones. I am light.

Be kind to others, so that you may learn the secret art of being kind to yourself.

No one appears on our stage unless the director has placed them there for our benefit

It is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering.

Be honest with yourself. The world is not honest with you. The world loves hypocrisy. When you are honest with yourself you find the road to inner peace.

Having lots of money while not having inner peace is like dying of thirst while bathing in the ocean.

Meet everybody and every circumstance on the battlefield of life with the courage of a hero and the smile of a conqueror.

Life is not only consisted of "yes" and "no", but a lot of "yes and's" and "no but's".

Banks should actively encourage companies that are doing a good job on environmental and social fronts. Banking for community development is the banking of future.

The world will not accept dictatorship or domination.

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

Every great work of art has two faces, one towards its own time and one towards future, towards eternity.

Between the time the last train leaves and the first train arrives, the place changes: it's not the same as in daytime.

The herald, earth-accredited, of heaven,--which when men hear, they think upon heaven's king, and run the items over of the account to which he is sure to call them.

The Lord is kind. He is good to all who take refuge under his wings.

Deep down in the human spirit, there is a reservoir of courage. It is always available, always waiting to be discovered.

An enemy forgiven is more dangerous than a thousand foes.