Man can change his destiny-not by wishing for it, but by working for it.

Silently hear everyone. Accept what is good. Reject and forget what is not. This is intelligent living.

Happiness depends on what you can give, not on what you can get.

Don't put the key to your happiness in someone else's pocket

Children are not vessels to be filled but lamps to be lit.

Leave aside your regrets of the past and anxieties of the future And focus intelligently on the present. This is the best way of ensuring a positive future.

To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness.

Expose yourself to aloneness. When a person is left alone, he starts thinking of higher reality - about death, life, soul, God and the mystery of all.

The Present is the womb of the future. A greater future happiness can be had only by investing in the present correctly. Look after the present and the future will look after itself.

Love is a consistent passion to give, not a meek persistent hope to receive. The only demand of life is the privilege to love all.

What we have is a gift from Him. What we do with what we have is our gift to him

How can anybody say they know how I feel? The only one around here who is me, is ME.

I've even purposely looked for stories full of exactly this kind of angst, because I love the emotion behind it so much.

Every dogma has its day.

I wonder if there's such a thing as a spiritual dentist? I think my whole personality is full of cavities!

When we pray for the Spirit, we are not praying for an answer; we are praying for God to enter us, to fill us with his presence, his thoughts, and his words.

I'd be willing to bet you, if I were a betting man, that I have never bet on baseball.

I don't find myself that interesting as a human being, so I don't really think that much of what I say or do warrants being recorded.

Getting through a workout is just very fulfilling. That 'Ah, I didn't want to do it but I did it and now I feel 10 times better.'

The real justification for psychedelics is that they feed new data into your model.

I did not go to any creative writing workshop; I did not major in literature. If I can write, anyone can write. All it needs is imagination.