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.

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

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.

I feel as though the world is a friendly boy walking along in the sun.

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

Always ask yourself the question "Is this going to help get me to my goal or not?

Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.

He had always known what I did not know and what, when I learned it, I was always able to forget. But I did not know that then, although I learned it later.

The Lord will never abandon you nor forsake you. He will stick with you until His perfect work is complete.

Art sometimes is as simple as nothing, and other times as mysterious as nature or a woman.

The eye - which sees all objects reversed - retains the images for some time.

Routine is part of coping.

You can't just stick with one thing. You have to let your natural style come through, and paint what you naturally like to paint.