Our degeneration, when it is traced back to its origin in our view of the world really consists in the fact that true optimism has vanished unperceived from our midst.

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 organisation of your life begins the moment you start out your vision.

When you live as I do, you cannot indulge in jealousy. If you do, it will rip you apart.

But if you needed to HAVE AN IDEA, boredom could be to a roadblocked novel what chemotherapy was to a cancer patient.

Music reminds us that the universe loves us

I'm not interested in turning anybody on to anybody that I'm turned on to... if people want to find things, they find them themselves.

They are fruit and transport: ripening melons, prairie schooners journeying under full sail.

I think that at its best you just have to respect each arena for what they can do well.

He was a man. Men always had lewd thoughts. It was perfectly natural and normal

Paradise is a center whither the souls of all men are proceeding, each sect in its particular road.

As a player, I like playing as much cricket as possible, irrelevant of the format.