Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON.

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy.

Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.

God much are the truly wealthy. So our inner happiness depends not on what we experience but on the degree of our gratitude to God, Gratitude — the Secret of Life.

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies.

Perhaps a book becomes a classic in proportion to how broadly its characters can be scavenged, how many readers find within it something they experience as desirable or even intimately necessary.

The burdens I carry on my back are in direct correlation to the weight of my ego.

Truth is the vital breath of Beauty Beauty the outward form of Truth.

Failure is what we're all running from, we're always running toward success with failure at our back.

Little books are the things to write at my age, I've decided. Avoid the big ones, go for the little ones.

Must be nice to have that kind of unshakable belief in a merciful higher power.

The average American is not concerned with his society. He talks about it, but you know if one speaks of being concerned, I mean something about which one loses one's sleep, sometimes.

I'm living out a childhood fantasy. Our house is in a historic district of a small town that I used to read about in storybooks

I hardly know so true a mark of a little mind as the servile imitation of others.