If there is a remedy or a cure, a solution to a problem or difficulty, why worry?

Worries are pointless. If there's a solution, there's no need to worry. If no solution exists, there's no point to worry.

Nothing goes right on the outside when nothing is going right on the inside.

To love oneself is to love life. It is essential to understand that we make ourselves happy in making others happy.

Happiness is a skill, emotional balance is a skill, compassion and altruism are skills, and like any skill they need to be developed. That's what education is about.

The basic root of happiness lies in our minds; outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable.

Let us live simply in the freshness of the present moment, in the clarity of pure awakened mind.

We deal with our mind from morning till evening, and it can be our best friend or our worst enemy.

We all have the ability to study the causes of suffering and gradually to free ourselves from them....it is not the magnitude of the task that matters, it's the magnitude of our courage.

Authentic happiness is not linked to an activity, it is a state of being.

Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things.

A child is conceived in a womb of a woman, miraculously, in sacred moment of conception.

I don't think we're going to save anything if we go around talking about saving plants and animals only we've got to translate that into what's in it for us.

You can't change Washington from the inside. You can only change it from the outside.

Just one thing I know for sure, chicks dig jerks.

I fell in love with her for her sense of humour. If she ever lost her sense of humour, I would have to dump her. Then I'd kill myself because I couldn't live without her.

History - that little sewer where man loves to wallow.

Prosperity is a great mercy, but adversity is a greater one, if it brings us to Christ.

New Yorkers have a delightfully narcissistic habit of assuming that if they're not conscious of a scene, it doesn't exist.

I get so much out of being married and raising my kids - that's really important to me.

Oh, I am in love with life!