Smiling away your troubles requires a clear conscience that harbors no insincerity.

If you want to be sad, no one in the world can make you happy. But if you make up your mind to be happy, no one and nothing on earth can take that happiness from you.

Change yourself and you have done your part in changing the world

Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself.

I am a spark from the Infinite. I am not flesh and bones. I am light.

Be kind to others, so that you may learn the secret art of being kind to yourself.

No one appears on our stage unless the director has placed them there for our benefit

It is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering.

Be honest with yourself. The world is not honest with you. The world loves hypocrisy. When you are honest with yourself you find the road to inner peace.

Having lots of money while not having inner peace is like dying of thirst while bathing in the ocean.

Meet everybody and every circumstance on the battlefield of life with the courage of a hero and the smile of a conqueror.

Miss, I'd gladly pay you to remove your clothes.

There was a time when my whole life was in chaos, really, and I didn't help myself sort it out. But one day I came to my senses, and I think I was lucky because a lot of people don't.

Without equality, I say, there cannot be liberty.

We probably looked like starving orphan children. Hey! We were starving orphan children.

The greatest change to go from average to fortune is not so much an increase in knowledge, but rather, a change in our emotions about achieving our goals.

The last thing that man will understand in nature is the performance of his brain.

I’m on a roller coaster that only goes up, my friend.

Anytime you’re on the podium, it’s good.

Don't worry, little dhampir. You might be surrounded by clouds, but you'll always be like sunshine to me.

Political history is far too criminal to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villians from fiction.