If we want spiritual development, the practice of patience is essential.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy-Dalai Lama

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.

There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do and mostly Live.

Don't ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness for weakness. Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.

Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.

Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.

If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, you're happy.

After pleasant scratching comes unpleasant smarting.

To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.

Have you fallen in love with wrong person yet?

The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.

If you're willing to tell somebody that you love them, are you also willing to say you're sorry? You need to, even when you think you're in the right.

I have a huge ego - I know that. Do I worry about it? No, I think its cool. I have a lot of fun.

It was not uncommon for the children to be told they were being treated this way because it was their bad karma and they must have hurt a child in a past life.

Science is like an inoculation against charlatans who would have you believe whatever it is they tell you.

Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility.