If it (the good circumstances) changes will you be able to keep onto your happiness just as much? Because if not then your happiness is really built on sand.

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.

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

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.

Wherever you walk, I go with you. Selah.

In doing we learne. [In doing we learn.]

Forms of expression always appear turgid to those who do not share the emotions they represent.

But I remember one thing: it wasn't me that started acting deaf; it was people that first started acting like I was too dumb to hear or see or say anything at all

Soul music is pain - you can hear the slaves, the beatin' and the hurtin'.

I was born in New York.

Pretty soon I think you'll have Republicans, Democrats and Hip Hop as a party.

The classic trap for any revolutionary is always, 'What's your alternative?

I don't want to be an icon. I want to be an idea. I want to represent possibilities.

When I was in college, I had only one ambition that one day I would like to be a director.