Placebos are like the lollipop of optimism, but we can do much better by dealing directly with the mind... And it works!

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

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

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.

The bubbly play of wit, the chesty laughs, the resonant voices of men when glass in hand they shut the grey world outside and prod their brains with the fun and folly of an accelerated pulse.

The Secret of Happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

Life is the game that must be played: This truth at least good friends we know So live and laugh nor be dismayed As one by one the phantoms go.

He serves his party best who serves the country best.

Every member of my family was displaced by Katrina.

Once your writing is out there, you can't control how other people perceive it. All you can do is stand in your truth.

Wife: one who is sorry she did it, but would undoubtedly do it again.

Generosity is never out of season.

The conscience of human never allows us to be quited with the unjustice.

Goodbye," I whisper at last, when it no longer matters and there is no one to hear it but the window.