That's what Buddhism has been trying to unravel - the mechanism of happiness and suffering. It is a science of the mind.

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.

Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.

We all naturally want to become successful... we also want to take shortcuts. And it's easy to do so, but you can never take away the effort of hard work and discipline and sacrifice.

The truth about who we really are, beyond all appearances, is knowledge worth seeking.

Either you push forward with the things that you were doing yesterday or you start dying.

The only way to remain great is to keep on applying the fundamental principles that made you great.

There's nothing the matter with Hollywood that a good earthquake couldn't cure.

There's nothing wrong with wearing a hat and cowboy boots if you want to be a country singer. But when you open your mouth, have something new to say. Have your own style.

I'm a fighter, not a quitter.

If you see Two in One - I only see One in Two

I think life's an irrational obsession.