Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

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.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.

When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it

I do believe sometimes discipline is very important. I'm not just lying around like a lazy cow all the time.

The average millionaire can't tell you who got thrown off the island last night.

God, great principle of all minor principles, God, who is Himself without a principle, could not conceive Himself, if, in order to do it, He required to know His own principle.

The inner child runs rampant. They're just smaller, that's all.

I'd been busy, busy, so busy, preparing for life, while life floated by me, quiet and swift as a regatta.

Love God and do whatever you please: for the soul trained in love to God will do nothing to offend the One who is Beloved.

He is greedy of life who is not willing to die when the world is perishing around him.