Success is not rightly measured by wealth, prestige and power. Success is measured by the yardstick of happiness.

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.

Becoming excellent at want, helps raises your confidence and develops your courage. Most of all, it can give you a grand reputation.

Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.

I love romantic comedy, but I think you have to have another idea that you're chasing along with romantic comedy.

I chose my pen name when I was ten, because I knew even then that my legal name would be more trouble than it was worth.

Be England what she will, With all her faults she is my country still.

The artists must see all things as if he were seeing them for the first time. All his life he must see as he did when he was a child.

I try to be well informed. I don't know how well I do all the time, but I try nonetheless.

I would like to think that the singer is the butterfly, and the drummer was just the little grub in the ground, working to become a caterpillar

Christians are always wanting God to give them something. They appear as beggars before the throne of the Almighty.

I have no interest in teaching writers how to sell. I want to teach them how to write. If the process is sound, the product will take care of itself, and sales are likely to follow.