The achievement of a happy life is not only positively good for us, it is constructively good for those around us.

Happiness is not a destination. It cannot be bought, sold or traded. Happiness is the gift of the journey.

Open your eyesOpen your earsOpen your mindOpen your heartThey are your portals to joy

Happiness waits for no one.

Authentic happiness is not selfish, egotistical or narcissistic, in fact, it is essential in order for humankind to thrive

Happiness is being at home your own skin and being able to occupy your life.

Sustainable happiness is important, because it not only elevate our own wellbeing locally, but also contributes to collective global flourishing.

Happiness will never invite you to the party. Happiness simply comes down to a choice to show up each and every day on the world with passion, purpose, place and meaning.

Don’t become that which you fear most.

What is the return on investment of being wedded to your suffering? What do you receive from stewing in victim consciousness? Righteous indignation or an excuse not to change?

Radically accept, release and allow suffering to move through you like a passing storm.

The major barrier to skill acquisition is not intellectual, it is emotional.

It's a sad commentary on our time - to use a phrase much favored by my late father - that people increasingly celebrate Christmas Day by going to the movies.

The soul is that which denies the body. For example, that which refuses to run when the body trembles, to strike when the body is angry, to drink when the body is thirsty.

My imagination doesn't require anything more of the book than to provide a framework within which it can wander.

The people who do make big discoveries are the ones who somehow manage to free themselves from conventional ways of thinking and to see the subject from a new perspective.

I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out.

If I don't understand it, it must be art.

Evangelism is selling a dream.

I think the traditional explanation is that demons just find someone, they pick on them and try to break down their spirit so they can... take control of their bodies. Why exactly? I don't know.

The women of the country have the power in their own hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the male order.