It's a divine art to be cheerful.

When nothing upsets you, you are at the beginning of the path. When you desire nothing, you are halfway on the path; when nothing becomes everything, you are perfected.

No amount of prayer or meditation can do what helping others can do.

Desire nothing except desirelessness. Hope for nothing except to rise above all hopes. Want nothing and you will have everything.

Happiest is he who expects no happiness from others. Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving. So learn to love and give, and not to expect anything from others.

The satisfaction derived from the fleeting things of life is not lasting; and our wants remain unfulfilled. There is thus a general sense of dissatisfaction accompanied by all kinds of worries.

Light can penetrate any amount of darkness but no amount of darkness can penetrate light.

Feelings and emotions are only the creation of mind and energy. Love is the creation of the soul.

It is not so much that you are within the cosmos but that the cosmos is within you.

Difficulties give us the opportunity to prove our greatness by overcoming them.

If we suffer in the sufferings of others and feel happy in the happiness of others, we are loving God.

Of what use can our labour be, when the labours we record are in themselves entirely useless?

The spirit of resiliency defeats all trials and tribulations.

Thou shalt not follow someone, merely because they are following you.

There is more than a mere suspicion that the scientist who comes to ask metaphysical questions and turns away from metaphysical answers may be afraid of those answers.

I just make it my business to get along with people so I can have fun. It's that simple.

Principles are like prayers; noble, of course, but awkward at a party.

I don't consider myself a comedian because I don't really concern myself too much with jokes.

He seems designed specifically for speed and deadly accuracy. But not strength, not particularly-he is smart, but not strong. Only strong enough to carry me.

A man can be a hero in any profession

It was not noisy prejudice that caused the work of Mendel to lie dead for thirty years, but the sheer inability of contemporary opinion to distinguish between a new idea and nonsense.