Nothing goes right on the outside when nothing is going right on the inside.

Worries are pointless. If there's a solution, there's no need to worry. If no solution exists, there's no point to worry.

To love oneself is to love life. It is essential to understand that we make ourselves happy in making others happy.

Happiness is a skill, emotional balance is a skill, compassion and altruism are skills, and like any skill they need to be developed. That's what education is about.

The basic root of happiness lies in our minds; outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable.

Let us live simply in the freshness of the present moment, in the clarity of pure awakened mind.

We deal with our mind from morning till evening, and it can be our best friend or our worst enemy.

We all have the ability to study the causes of suffering and gradually to free ourselves from them....it is not the magnitude of the task that matters, it's the magnitude of our courage.

Authentic happiness is not linked to an activity, it is a state of being.

Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things.

Transform our way of perceiving things, we transform the quality of our lives.

Thanks for not freaking out, " I said."Oh, I'm freaking out, " Paul promised, his eyes wide. "I just think it's awesome!

I'd like to do a romantic comedy like 'Notting Hill, ' which is one of my favorite movies.

There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.

The ones who complain and talk the most about giving away Medicine Secrets, are always those who know the least.

To know Paris is to know a great deal.

It was really an exciting time trying to find my way from being a boy to becoming a man—being toe to toe and eye to eye with grown men, even though I was only 11 or 12.

A nation is blessed when it has godly leaders.

I strongly believe in my own rights and wrongs and impose them on myself and my family.

There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral.

We are all really alone. We're isolated in our own mind.