I never enter a new company without the hope that I may discover a friend perhaps the friend sitting there with an expectant smile. That hope survives a thousand disappointments.

Congenial labor is essence of happiness.

Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.

Readjusting is a painful process but most of us need it at one time or another.

It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see not perhaps the way out but the way in.

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes but its fears.

It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles and that help must come from without.

The moment that any life however good stifles you you may be sure it isn't your real life.

Truthfulness is a luxury, perhaps the greatest, and let me assure you, the most expensive luxury in our life—and happy the man who has been able to enjoy it from his very child hood.

I don't make friends based on how big their pockets are or how well connected they are

Only those who are brainwashed and foolsbelieve in the existence of a god.Those who are indifferent just pretend.

He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

We've gotten so far away from our food source. It's been hijacked from us. But if you get soil, plant something in it and water it, you can feed yourself. It's that simple.

As the physically weak man can make himself strong by careful and patient training, so the man of weak thoughts can make them strong by exercising himself in right thinking.

I find pieces of myself everywhere, and I cut myself handling them.

Television is just the wrong medium, at least in prime time, to teach science. I think it is hopeless if it insists on behaving like television. . . .

His foreparents came to America in immigrant ships. My foreparents came to America in slave ships. But whatever the original ships, we are both in the same boat tonight.

Krishna insisted on outer cleanliness and inner cleansing. Clean clothes and clean minds are an ideal combination.