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

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.

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.

The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.

Beauty is an illusion.

Not every happy person is married, and, Not every married person is happy.

The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.

Money is important yes, but not the most important. I don't need money to smile or breathe. I would still be breathing if all my money disappeared tomorrow.

It was important for him to believe that he'd spent his life among people who kept missing the point.

A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.

I didn't want to be a hero to kids; I didn't think I had that. I just wanted to be popular.

I can't play piano like I used to either. I used to have bass rolling like thunder. I can't do that no more. But I ask the Lord, please forgive me for the stuff I done trying to make a nickel.

Obviously I always wanted to do a contemporary piece.

I like to go shopping, to the movies, all the girl stuff. Just a normal girl.