Society cannot but depend to a disproportionate degree on its capable few to develop and flourish.

Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

If you want to do one good thing in the world, the best thing you can do is give other people joy.

Happiness is like a plant: It must be watered daily with giving thoughts and actions.

Be thou a true yogi. A yogi who understands that everything he's looking for is really inside himself. Learn to live more in the Self.

The "kingdom of heaven" to which he referred was the state of God-consciousness, not the beautiful astral heavens that most people visualize, where virtuous souls go after death.

Even-minded and cheerful. When things go bad, you'll find that the same kind of attitude comes to you naturally.

Happiness is a question of attitude, not a question of what's happening out there.

Happiness is reverence for all life.

Spirituality means seeking experience. Not just belief.

Trust life, even if you cannot trust people. For human nature is unreliable, but life itself is ruled by immutable law. Right action leads always, in the end, to victory.

Destiny deals you your hand and what you do with the cards is up to you.

Find someone who will change your life, not just your relationship status.

Honestly, if you're given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don't say 'what kind of tea?

We were an extraordinary paradox. We are finite creatures made for the infinite.

I'm going to cut taxes big league, and you're going to raise taxes big league, end of story.

I'm absolutely a Ron Paul fan.

Any woman who has a great deal to offer the world is in trouble. And if she's a black woman, seh's in deep trouble.

Plans are worthless, but planning is invaluable.

I can be singing about cat food and I'll make you think that I mean it.

I left Scotland when I was 16 because I had no qualifications for anything but the Navy, having left school at 13.